JD Vance took to X to express support for Tulsi Gabbard and her family after she announced her resignation as intelligence chief on Friday, May 22

The director of National Intelligence announced her resignation on Friday, saying she needed to care for her husband.

Tulsi Gabbard entered the Trump administration as one of its most unconventional national security picks and left it after months of mounting friction, internal isolation, and growing speculation that her time was running short long before her resignation as director of national intelligence for personal reasons on Friday.

The former Democratic congresswoman said she would be leaving her job following her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

She left the party in 2022, first becoming an independent and then, in 2024, a Republican, coming to represent the anti-war wing of the MAGA movement. Her appointment as DNI, charged with co-ordinating America’s 18 intelligence agencies,

Lawmakers reacted to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation along party lines, with Democrats celebrating her departure and Republicans thanking her for her service. Gabbard announced Friday she is resigning from her position to support her husband after he was diagnosed with bone cancer.

Top intelligence official Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a daughter-in-law of RFK Jr., is leaving top posts at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of Management and Budget.

A task force launched by U.S. intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to "end weaponization" has fallen apart after "drama" triggered by a memo it circulated that spread false claims — made by a January 6 rioter — against a CIA employee and a former Capitol Police officer.