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华盛顿讯——图尔西·加巴德周五表示，她将辞去国家情报总监职务，原因是丈夫被诊断出患有罕见骨癌。
在写给特朗普总统的辞职信中，加巴德表示她的辞职将于6月30日生效。
“我的丈夫亚伯拉罕近期被诊断出患有极为罕见的骨癌。未来数周乃至数月，他将面临重重挑战。此时此刻，我必须辞去公职，陪伴在他身边，全力支持他战胜病魔，”她说道。“我无法心安理得地要求他独自面对这场战斗，而我自己却继续担任这份耗费大量时间和精力的职务。”
图尔西·加巴德的辞职信
加巴德表示，在两人11年的婚姻生活中，丈夫一直是她的“坚实后盾”，期间经历了她的海外部署、政治竞选以及她在特朗普政府中的任职。
“他的力量与爱支撑我度过了每一次挑战，”她补充道，并表示她“将全力确保未来几周内实现平稳、彻底的权力交接”。
2025年2月12日，图尔西·加巴德在椭圆形办公室宣誓就任国家情报总监，图为她与丈夫亚伯拉罕·威廉姆斯拥抱合影。安德鲁·卡巴列罗-雷诺兹/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社
特朗普在Truth社交平台上发文称赞加巴德，称她“表现出色”。他表示，加巴德在国家情报总监办公室的副手亚伦·卢卡斯将在过渡期内担任代理总监。
加巴德的辞职消息最先由福克斯新闻报道。
加巴德是今年以来第四位离开本届政府的内阁成员，此前离开的还有司法部长帕姆·邦迪、国土安全部长克里斯蒂·诺姆和劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默。
她的离任将在这个关键职位上留下空缺，该职位负责监管构成美国情报共同体的18个机构，而此时正值美国与伊朗的战争期间。
加巴德的任期
加巴德曾是民主党议员，2024年脱离民主党支持特朗普，于2025年2月宣誓就职国家情报总监。在其整个政治生涯中，她始终坚决反对对伊朗采取军事干预行动。
今年早些时候在国会作证时，加巴德并未对当前的战争表示支持，她告诉议员们，应由总统来界定何为“迫在眉睫的威胁”。
今年3月，加巴德的高级助手、国家反恐中心负责人乔·肯特辞职，他称“伊朗并未对我国构成迫在眉睫的威胁”。加巴德向议员们表示，肯特的表态令她担忧，但未做详细说明。
“归根结底，我们已向总统提供了情报评估，而总统是由美国人民选举产生的，他将根据手头掌握的信息自行做出决定，”她说道。
在2025年伊朗核设施遭轰炸之前，特朗普曾称加巴德在当年早些时候向议员作证称伊朗并未在制造核武器的说法是“错误的”。在特朗普驳回相关评估后，加巴德指责媒体“断章取义地引用我的证词”。
今年1月，加巴德出现在佐治亚州富尔顿县的选举办公室，当时联邦调查局正在执行搜查令，调取与2020年大选相关的选票及其他记录，这一行为也引发了争议。民主党人士质疑这位情报总监为何会参与国内执法行动。
担任国家情报总监期间，加巴德去年夏天表示将把其办公室的员工裁减约40%，将人数缩减至1300人左右。她估计此次裁员每年可节省约7亿美元。加巴德当时表示，国家情报总监办公室已变得“臃肿低效，情报共同体内部充斥着权力滥用行为”。
在一份关于她离任的声明中，参议院情报委员会资深民主党议员、弗吉尼亚州参议员马克·华纳表示，加巴德的继任者“必须致力于恢复民众对该办公室的信任，保护我们情报工作的完整性，并确保我国的情报专业人员能够毫无畏惧、不受干预地据实向权力机关谏言”。
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默表示，总统“绝不能将这个空缺职位视为又一次以忠诚而非能力论奖赏的机会”。
这位纽约州民主党议员说道：“参议院民主党人将反对任何将特朗普的政治凌驾于美国国家安全之上的提名。”
Tulsi Gabbard resigning as director of national intelligence, citing husband’s cancer diagnosis
2026-05-22T13:23:00-0400 / CBS News
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Updated on: May 22, 2026 / 3:22 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that she is resigning as the director of national intelligence, stepping aside after her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer.
In a letter to President Trump, Gabbard said her resignation would be effective June 30.
“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,” she said. “I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position.”
Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation letter
Gabbard said her husband has been her “rock” during their 11-year marriage, which has included a deployment, political campaigns and her role in the Trump administration.
“His strength and love have sustained me through every challenge,” she said, adding that she is “fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the coming weeks.”
Tulsi Gabbard and her husband Abraham Williams hug before she is sworn in as director of national intelligence in the Oval Office on Feb. 12, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
Mr. Trump praised Gabbard in a post on Truth Social, saying she “has done an incredible job.” He said Aaron Lukas, Gabbard’s deputy at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will serve as acting director in the interim.
Gabbard’s resignation was first reported by Fox News.
Gabbard is the fourth Cabinet member to leave the administration this year, following the departures of Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
Her departure will create an opening in a crucial role overseeing the 18 agencies that comprise the nation’s intelligence community amid the war with Iran.
Gabbard’s tenure
Gabbard, a former Democratic lawmaker who broke with her party to endorse Mr. Trump in 2024, was sworn into her post in February 2025. She had been firmly opposed to military intervention in Iran throughout her political career.
Appearing before Congress earlier this year, Gabbard did not express support for the current war, telling members that it’s up to the president to determine what constitutes an “imminent threat.”
In March, Gabbard’s top aide Joe Kent, who led the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned, saying “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.” Gabbard told lawmakers that Kent’s statement concerned her, without elaborating.
“Ultimately, we have provided the president with the intelligence assessments and the president is elected by the American people and makes his own decisions based on the information that’s available to him,” she said.
Before the bombings of Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2025, Mr. Trump said Gabbard was “wrong” when she testified to lawmakers earlier that year that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon. Following Mr. Trump’s dismissal of the assessment, Gabbard accused the media of “taking my testimony out of context.”
Gabbard also raised alarms in January when she appeared at elections headquarters in Fulton County, Georgia, while the FBI executed a search warrant and took ballots and other records related to the 2020 election. Democrats questioned why the intelligence chief was involved in domestic law enforcement operations.
As DNI, Gabbard said last summer she would slash her office’s staff by around 40%, cutting its headcount to around 1,300. She estimated the cuts would save around $700 million annually. Gabbard said at the time that the ODNI had become “bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power.”
In a statement about her departure, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Gabbard’s replacement “must be committed to restoring trust in the office, protecting the integrity of our intelligence, and ensuring our nation’s intelligence professionals can speak truth to power, without fear or interference.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the president “must not treat this vacancy as another opportunity to reward loyalty over competence.”
“Senate Democrats will fight any nominee who puts Trump’s politics ahead of America’s security,” the New York Democrat said.
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