{"id":1172,"date":"2026-07-11T20:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2026-07-11T20:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:03:04","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-turns-in-her-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard Turns In Her Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence to Support Husband\u2019s Cancer Treatment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence in President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, citing her husband\u2019s recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer. Her resignation will take effect on June 30, allowing her to focus on supporting her husband, Abraham Williams, during his treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a resignation letter shared publicly, Gabbard expressed gratitude to President Trump for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence over the past year and a half. She wrote that her husband\u2019s condition will require extensive care in the months ahead and that she could not continue in such a demanding role while standing by his side during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, a former U.S. representative from Hawaii, was appointed to oversee the nation\u2019s intelligence community during Trump\u2019s administration. Her departure marks another high-profile leadership change within the administration. According to multiple news reports, Principal Deputy Director Aaron Lukas is expected to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence following her resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence to Support Husband\u2019s Cancer Treatment Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence in President Donald &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}