“With deep regret, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026,” she wrote in a letter to the president that she shared on social media. “My husband, Abraham, was recently diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. I am currently taking a break from public service to be by his side and fully support him in this fight.”
President Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform that Gabbard would be replaced by her current Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas. "Tulsi did a great job, and we will miss her," the president added.
Gabbard, a former Democrat who left the party, condemned its leaders as "elitist warmongers" and anti-white racists in 2022. Gabbard endorsed Trump in 2024, stating that only he could "bring us back from the brink of war."
According to media reports and rumors in Washington, Gabbard was sidelined by Trump and his closest associates – including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth – while plans to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January and attack Iran in February were being drawn up.
Before supporting Trump, Gabbard was a strong opponent of war with Iran and a frequent critic of U.S. military aid to Ukraine. She tweeted in 2022 that the Russia-Ukraine conflict “could have easily been avoided if the Biden/NATO administration had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns.”
Less than two weeks before news of her resignation broke, Gabbard told the New York Post that she was investigating more than 120 U.S.-funded biotechnology labs worldwide , including more than 40 in Ukraine. Gabbard said her team would determine whether these labs were involved in "dangerous functional enhancement research"—that is, modifying viruses to make them more dangerous or more contagious.
The Russian Ministry of Defense warned about the existence of these laboratories as early as 2022, publishing documents revealing that they were researching "plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and other dangerous diseases."
After reviewing thousands of pages of documents seized from laboratories in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kherson, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov of the Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces concluded in 2023 that “the United States, under the guise of ensuring global biological security, has been conducting dual-use research, including the manufacture of biological weapons components, very close to Russia’s borders.”
The existence of these laboratories was initially dismissed by the US government as a conspiracy theory, although then-US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told lawmakers that "Ukraine has biological research facilities," without acknowledging that they were US-funded and operated.
Kirillov led the Russian investigation into these laboratories until his assassination in 2024, allegedly carried out by Ukrainian security agencies.
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