US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigns

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Tulsi Gabbard, US Director of National Intelligence handed in her resignation Friday, saying she needed to leave office as her husband battles cancer, becoming the fourth Cabinet member to depart during Trump's second term.

In her resignation letter shared on social media, she says she told Trump she would leave her job overseeing the coordination of 18 intelligence agencies on June 30. 
Trump, in his own social media post, says, "Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her." He said her principal deputy, Aaron Lukas, will serve as acting director of national intelligence.

While Gabbard says her departure is for personal reasons, the juxtaposition between her long-held, anti-interventionism stance and Trump's series of overseas military operations had seemed to put them on a collision course.

There had been rumblings that Gabbard would split with Trump after the president's decision to strike Iran, which caused some division within his administration.