{"id":966,"date":"2026-05-22T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/05\/22\/tulsi-gabbard-quits-trump-administration-fox\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:39:45","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-quits-trump-administration-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard quits Trump administration \u2013 Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The director of national intelligence had been leading an investigation into US-funded biolabs in Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has announced her resignation, citing her husband\u2019s recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer, Fox News reported on Friday. Her resignation comes a week after she revealed she was investigating US-funded biolabs in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard discussed her resignation with President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday. She will leave her position on June 30, Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUnfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026,\u201d<\/em> she wrote in a letter to the president seen by the network. <em>\u201cMy husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A former Democrat, Gabbard left the party and denounced its leaders as<em> \u201celitist warmongers\u201d <\/em>and anti-white racists in 2022. Gabbard endorsed Trump in 2024, claiming that only he could<em> \u201cwalk us back from the brink of war.\u201d <br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to media reports and Washington rumors, Gabbard was sidelined by Trump and his closest officials \u2013 among them Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth \u2013 while plans were drawn up to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January and attack Iran in February.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ODNIgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ODNIgov<\/a> for the last year and a half. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PS0Dxp5zpd\">pic.twitter.com\/PS0Dxp5zpd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tulsi Gabbard \ud83c\udf3a (@TulsiGabbard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TulsiGabbard\/status\/2057876821421527476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of national intelligence had been leading an investigation into US-funded biolabs in Ukraine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}