Tulsi Gabbard resigning as Trump’s intelligence chief
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard speaks throughout a press briefing, on the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 23, 2025.
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Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as President donald trump‘s director of nationwide intelligence, she announced Friday.
Gabbard, in a resignation letter addressed to Trump, mentioned she has to step down so as to help her husband, Abraham Williams, who has “recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”
A letter from Tulsi Gabbard stating her resignation.
Courtesy: US National Intelligence
“I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position,” she wrote within the letter dated Friday.
Her resignation is efficient June 30, she wrote.
Fox News first reported Gabbard’s resignation.
The White House didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.
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