Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard plans to release findings from several sensitive investigations before leaving office June 30 to care for her husband, Abraham, after his rare bone cancer diagnosis.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard plans to spend her final weeks in office releasing findings from several sensitive investigations before stepping down June 30 to care for her husband, Abraham, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer.
Gabbard announced last week that she would leave the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after months of leading an aggressive overhaul of the intelligence community under President Donald Trump. In her resignation letter, she said her husband’s diagnosis requires her full attention.
“My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,” Gabbard wrote.
“I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position.”
Gabbard’s departure comes after a tenure marked by efforts to restructure intelligence priorities, revoke security clearances from officials accused of abusing public trust, end diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the intelligence community and redirect agency attention toward foreign terrorist organizations.
She also made declassification a central part of her role. By May 2026, Gabbard had overseen the release of more than 500,000 pages of previously classified government records.
Those files included records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; documents tied to Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance; and Biden administration materials involving the federal government’s “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.”
Gabbard also pushed for the declassification of materials related to the Russia investigation. Her office has argued those records show that intelligence was weaponized during the Obama administration to target Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Before leaving office, Gabbard plans to release findings in weekly installments from several investigations. The planned disclosures are expected to cover Havana Syndrome, the origins of COVID-19, alleged federal government weaponization under recent Democratic administrations and the 2020 presidential election.
In her resignation letter to Trump, Gabbard said she would remain focused on the transition and on continuity inside the intelligence community.
“I am fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the coming weeks so that you and your team experience no disruption in leadership or momentum,” she wrote.
“It has been a profound honor to serve the American people as DNI.”
Trump responded to Gabbard’s resignation in a Truth Social post, praising her service and acknowledging her husband’s illness.
“Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th,” Trump wrote.
He added that he had “no doubt he will soon be better than ever,” referring to Abraham.
Trump also said Gabbard had “done an incredible job, and we will miss her.”
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will serve as acting DNI after Gabbard’s departure.
The administration now faces the task of selecting and confirming a permanent replacement. That process could be complicated by tensions between the White House and Senate Republicans after Trump endorsed primary challengers against Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
Gabbard’s final month is expected to keep the intelligence community under scrutiny as she prepares a series of declassification releases before leaving government service. Her planned disclosures could shape the final chapter of her tenure and extend the administration’s broader campaign to expose what it describes as politicization inside federal agencies.