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I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half.
X ^ | 05/22/2026 | Tulsi Gabbard

Posted on 05/22/2026 12:29:10 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half.

Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. 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.

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1 posted on 05/22/2026 12:29:10 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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2 posted on 05/22/2026 12:32:29 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Damn. She has done a great job exposing Deep State corruption. She is incredibly rare in having the guts to take them on. We are going to miss Tulsi.


3 posted on 05/22/2026 12:33:03 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Prayers up for her, her husband and their family.

🙏🙏🙏


4 posted on 05/22/2026 12:33:06 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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Tulsi is a wonderful wonderful person, one of my favorites in this Administration and I dont blame her one bit for focusing on her husband, so young, only 38 yrs old, suffering from aggressive bone cancer, just HORRIBLE my heart breaks for him and Tulsi..family is what matters the MOST, PERIOD END OF STORY


5 posted on 05/22/2026 12:33:18 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Deep state probably caused the cancer. Six ways till Sunday according to Schumer


6 posted on 05/22/2026 12:36:59 PM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance! )
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Senate is in recess. Appoint her replacement now.


7 posted on 05/22/2026 12:39:30 PM PDT by wny
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“Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.” That’s terrible news.


8 posted on 05/22/2026 12:41:57 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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No, that’s the thing. Thune and Johnson refuse to recess so that no recess appointments can be made. Each house convenes and adjourns for less than 2 minutes each day in a pro forma session


9 posted on 05/22/2026 12:46:39 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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May God bring healing to Abraham, and blessings to Tulsi!

I studied the Bhagavad Gita when I was an undergraduate at MIT, even though I have completely forgotten it as of now. I know the New Testament very well, and totally love it. If God wills, may He bring Tulsi and Abraham to faith in Jesus Christ. Amen!


10 posted on 05/22/2026 12:48:59 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Prayers up for her husband’s full recovery...

I do not doubt that the communists will be all over this resignation as if it is a political slap at President Trump...


11 posted on 05/22/2026 12:52:07 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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I suspect there was something to the reported disagreements between her and Trump.

And we all know that Trump gets easily bored with the people who work for him let alone disagree with him.

That said I believe Trump had as much respect for her as any of those around him prone to sychophancy.

She was the loyal soldier who didn’t love the camera and had the work ethic to just do the job she was charged with.

Hate to see her leave under such circumstance.

Her day may yet come.

But she is doing the right thing which comes as no surprise.


12 posted on 05/22/2026 12:52:34 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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That’s a can of worms the deep state will be eating raw as they receive their IQ scores.


13 posted on 05/22/2026 12:54:21 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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I wish the Gabbard family well; bone cancer is a terrible thing to suffer, and good on her for putting family first.


14 posted on 05/22/2026 1:59:57 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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that sounds serious.i like her prioritiees. her husband comes first. hoping for the best.


15 posted on 05/22/2026 1:59:59 PM PDT by avital2 (I)
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“And we all know that Trump gets easily bored with the people who work for him let alone disagree with him.”

Trump has been running multi billion dollars company for 40 years but you think “Trump gets easily bored with the people who work for him”?

16 posted on 05/22/2026 2:15:03 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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I think Trump is the exact opposite of “getting bored with the people who work for him.“. As the CEO of his multi billion dollar enterprise, he often mentored people into higher responsibility and higher paying jobs because he saw potential in them. So many told these stories when he was running in 2016. Of course, if they did not work out, he could fire them, something he could not do with most people in Washington.


17 posted on 05/22/2026 2:29:20 PM PDT by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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Business Trump and Gubmint Trump is two different animals.

How many people has Trump had working for him in gubmint who actually gets MAGA.

After Stephen Miller, I really can’t think of any.

He got bored with a lot of chief of staffs because they didn’t get MAGA and putting the people first.

Can’t even remember who was his first Secretary of State who didn’t last long.

And sometime much later the ever candid Trump admitted hiring him was a mistake, I thought he looked like a Secretary of State should look.

And the funny thing was the guy whoever he was bored me to tears also and it only took five minutes to do so.


18 posted on 05/22/2026 2:47:40 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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God bless her as she stands beside her husband.


19 posted on 05/22/2026 2:56:00 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA "by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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I’m sorry she’s leaving.


20 posted on 05/22/2026 4:52:34 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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