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Recent White House Cabinet Departures
Timeline of notable senior-level departures within the Trump administration in 2026.
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Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Trump's Intelligence Chief
By Nia Prater, Intelligencer staff writer, who covers New York politics Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images The Trump administration’s revolving door is continuing apace as the president is set to lose another member of his Cabinet next month. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is resigning from her role effective June 30, the fourth such exit from the administration in a matter of weeks. Fox News broke the news of Gabbard’s exit on Friday, sharing excerpts of her resignation letter to President Donald Trump, which cited her husband Abraham’s recent diagnosis 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. Trump himself later shared the letter on Truth Social, confirming the news of Gabbard’s exit and that Aaron Lukas, her principal deputy director, will succeed her as acting DNI. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” he said. While Gabbard’s announcement landed as a surprise on Friday afternoon, the former Hawaii representative was frequently at the center of rumors that she might be the next Trump official ousted from the administration. Last month, The Guardian reported that the president had polled other members of his Cabinet about firing Gabbard as intelligence chief, citing her refusal to criticize her onetime aide Joe Kent, who lambasted the White House for its handling of the Iran war in his resignation from a top counterterrorism role. Gabbard is now the fourth member of Trump’s Cabinet to leave the administration, though her former colleagues’ departures were far from voluntary. In April, Trump fired Kristi Noem after her tumultuous tenure leading the Department of Homeland Security through the president’s controversial immigration crackdown. That same month, the president also fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, who faced criticism for her handling of the release of the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files as well as her failed attempts to prosecute Trump’s political enemies. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the former secretary of Labor, resigned as she faced investigation over allegations of misconduct. Everyone Trying to Cash In on Trump’s Slush Fund California Governor’s Race Is Turning Into a 3-Way Fight Senate GOP Turns on Trump, Freezes ICE Bill See All Tulsi Gabbard Resigns As Trump’s Intelligence Chief Your product is save...
Tulsi Gabbard resigning as Trump's intelligence chief - CNBC
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a press briefing at the White House, in Washington, July 23, 2025.Kent Nishimura | ReutersTulsi Gabbard is resigning as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, becoming the latest Cabinet official to leave his administration, she announced Friday.Gabbard, in a resignation letter addressed to Trump, said she has to step down in order to support 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: The White House"I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position," she wrote in the letter, dated Friday.Her resignation is effective June 30, she wrote.Trump confirmed later Friday that Gabbard was "unfortunately" departing, writing in a Truth Social post that she has "done an incredible job, and we will miss her."Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will take over from Gabbard in an acting capacity, Trump wrote in the post.Fox News first reported Gabbard's resignation.Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who fell out with her party and later joined the Republican Party, was confirmed as national intelligence chief less than a month after Trump's second term began. As DNI, she led the U.S. intelligence community, a sprawling coalition of 18 agencies and organizations.Her tenure was marked by reports of behind-the-scenes clashes with Trump and other administration officials — which sometimes appeared to spill out into the open. Gabbard, a veteran who was deployed to the Middle East, had endorsed Trump in 2024 on anti-interventionist grounds, praising him as a peace-seeker while condemning Democratic former President Joe Biden over the conflicts that began during his term.As Trump pursued striking Iran to cripple its nuclear capabilities last summer, Gabbard released an unusual video warning about "warmongers carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers." The video incensed Trump, Politico reported at the time. Asked later that month about Gabbard's prior Senate testimony that Iran wasn't trying to build a nuclear bomb, Trump replied, "I don't care what she said," and later said, "She's wrong."Gabbard also drew scrutiny for appearing at an FBI raid on a Georgia election office in late January that resulted in the seizure of 2020 election...
Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Intelligence Chief - The New York Times
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence and an advocate of a more restrained foreign policy, submitted a letter of resignation to President Trump on Friday, saying that she was ...
Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Trumps top US intelligence official
Former Democrat Gabbard, long a critic of US interventionism, cites husband’s illness for leaving post.Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her job as United States President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, according to her resignation letter posted on her X account.In her resignation letter, Gabbard told Trump she was “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3What to know about US-Iran standoff over the Strait of Hormuzlist 2 of 3Cloud over US-Iran talks: What are the key sticking points?list 3 of 3What was the Iran nuclear deal Trump dumped in search of ‘better’ terms?end of listShe cited her husband’s recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer as the reason for her resignation.Trump also confirmed the resignation in a post on his Truth Social account, saying, “Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th.”“Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” he added.The president added that the principal deputy director of national intelligence, Aaron Lukas, would serve in the role in an acting capacity.Gabbard served in the US Congress as a Democrat for eight years, from 2013 to 2021. She launched a long-shot bid for president in 2020.A former member of the Hawaii National Guard, she was deployed during the US invasion of Iraq. The experience informed her staunchly anti-interventionist views.After leaving office, Gabbard broke with the Democratic Party, and in 2020, she endorsed US President Donald Trump, of whom she had been a top critic.She pointed to Trump’s promises to end US military adventurism abroad as the motivator for her decision.The administration of then-President Joe Biden “has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in regions around the world and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before”, Gabbard said at Trump campaign event in Detroit, Michigan.But Gabbard’s past statements, including opposition to military action against both Venezuela and Iran, have stood in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s actions.Tulsi was reportedly sidelined when the administration decided to launch a military abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.After initial silence on Iran, Gabbard later defended the Trump administration’s decision to launch the current w...
