In an era when Washington careers often consume every personal tie, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has chosen family over position. She submitted her resignation to President Donald Trump on Friday, citing her husband Abraham’s recent diagnosis with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. Her final day in the role will be June 30, 2026.
This decision arrives amid a first Trump term marked by aggressive efforts to restore integrity to America’s intelligence apparatus. Gabbard leaves behind a record of tangible reforms, including major workforce reductions that saved taxpayers hundreds of millions annually, the dismantling of divisive DEI initiatives within the community, and the declassification of more than half a million pages of records. Those documents shed light on past abuses ranging from the Trump-Russia probe to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
She will be missed in that position, but she is doing the right thing.