Tulsi Gabbard steps down as national intelligence director
Tulsi Gabbard has now shared a statement on X, confirming that she is resigning from her post as national intelligence director, citing her husband’s illness.
In a resignation letter first reported by Fox News, Gabbard tells the president she is “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence 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.”
Her husband “faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months”, she wrote. “At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.”
Today, with great humility and sincere appreciation, I shared the below letter with President Trump. It has been a profound honor to serve the American people as DNI. pic.twitter.com/iBi6eURzvE
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) May 22, 2026
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Trump announces Aaron Lukas as acting director of national intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard steps down as national intelligence director. Gabbard shared a statement on X, confirming that she is resigning from her post as national intelligence director, citing her husband’s illness. Gabbard told the president she is “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.”
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Trump swears in Kevin Warsh as the new chair of the Federal Reserve as his administration struggles to shrug off mounting concerns over affordability. Warsh will confront a darkening economic outlook, with inflation hitting a three-year high of 3.8% in April.
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Trump claims he selflessly gave up IRS settlement in return for $1.8bn fund ‘helping others’. Amid almost a week of reactions from Democrats and Republicans to Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund, Trump said: “I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!”
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Marco Rubio said Trump ‘disappointment’ with Nato will be discussed at summit. While meeting with foreign ministers of the military alliance, Rubio emphasized that he expected the rift would be discussed at the July meeting in Ankara, making the summit “one of the more important” in Nato’s 77-year history.
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Trump has begun speaking at Hudson Valley, talking about how much New York means to him, and how the GOP must take it back.
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“New Yorkers are people who built Wall Street into the world’s financial capital, who turned Broadway into the heart of American culture and entertainment, who dug the Erie Canal, and launched 1,000 innovations that built the middle class, the middle class of our country, who really built the country,” he said.
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In a post on Truth Social, the president announced Aaron Lukas, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, as the acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard, whose resignation will come into effect on 30 June.
n Trump regretted Gabbard’s departure and wished good health to her husband, who is battling a rare form of bone cancer. He said:
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Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her. Her highly respected Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence.
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Tulsi Gabbard has now shared a statement on X, confirming that she is resigning from her post as national intelligence director, citing her husband’s illness.
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In a resignation letter first reported by Fox News, Gabbard tells the president she is “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.”
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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.”
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Her husband “faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months”, she wrote. “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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Today, with great humility and sincere appreciation, I shared the below letter with President Trump. It has been a profound honor to serve the American people as DNI. pic.twitter.com/iBi6eURzvE
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) May 22, 2026
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Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her role as Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence.
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In a resignation letter first reported by Fox News, Gabbard tells the president she is “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.”
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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.”
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Her husband “faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months”, she wrote. “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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Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general sells an herbal supplement that contains an ingredient prohibited by the US military and which health experts have warned can cause liver damage.
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Dr Nicole Saphier’s record of selling dietary supplements, which are only loosely regulated in the US, has raised concern among doctors and consumer advocates, some of whom allege she sells “snake oil”.
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Amazon said it had opened an investigation into the products after the Guardian inquired whether they were in compliance with the company’s policies on supplement sales.
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“Nobody who prides themselves as rigorous about science is in the supplement business,” said Dr Peter Lurie of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food and health watchdog organization. Lurie has been an outspoken critic of what he called wellness industry “grifters” inside health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement, who he said sold consumers poorly regulated supplements with unsupported claims.
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The surgeon general is considered America’s doctor, responsible for communicating the best scientific information to Americans about how to improve their health. Previous surgeons general have issued influential warnings on tobacco use and educated the public about Aids.
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Saphier specializes in breast cancer as a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New Jersey and is a former contributor to Fox News. She is Trump’s third pick for the job after his first two failed to advance in the Senate.
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Saphier and her company, Drop RX, did not respond to several emails seeking comment.
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“Dr Nicole Saphier is an accomplished physician who has practiced radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and has been an outspoken voice on breast cancer prevention, intrusive COVID-19 mandates, the politicization of science, and the federal government’s role in America’s chronic disease epidemic,” the White House spokesperson Kush Desai wrote in an email. “She will be a powerful asset for President Trump and work tirelessly to deliver on every facet of his Maha agenda.”
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Warsh said he will lead a “reform-oriented Federal Reserve”, describing his mandate promoting “price stability and maximum employment”.
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He said: “inflation can be lower, growth stronger, real take-home pay higher, and America can be more prosperous, and no less important,” adding that “America’s place in the world [would be] more secure.”
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Trump spoke about how he believed the US Federal Reserve had lost its way recently.
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It became distracted by concerns far removed from its core mission and mandate, drifting into matters such as climate policy and DEI initiatives, with the Fed strength from its mandate, while the last administration blew out the deficit, Americans suffered the worst inflation that we had in history. It was the worst inflation we’ve ever had. As you know, there’s some people say you’re wrong about that.
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The president was hopeful that Warsh would bring about positive economic growth.
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It’s so important, and as we discussed, economic growth doesn’t mean inflation, it can be just the opposite, actually. But economic growth does not mean inflation. You don’t have to stop the world because you’re doing well. Kevin’s also said that he’ll bring much-needed reform and modernization transforming obsolete data collection methods, rolling back reliance on inaccurate models and curtailing the Fed’s practice of issuing so-called forward guidance.
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“I expect you will go down as one of the best chairs the Fed has ever had,” said Trump at the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. “No one is better prepared to lead the federal reserve than Kevin Warsh.”
n He also gave shout-outs to other senior government officials, including Brett Kavanaugh, Scott Bessent, Brooke Rollins, Sean Duffy, John Ratcliffe and Keith Sonderling among others.
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There are 482 suspected cases and about 116 deaths reported since April in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with two cases and one death in Uganda and potential spread to neighboring South Sudan. The outbreak “might have been going on for a few months”, said Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research.
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The outbreak was immediately declared a public health emergency of international concern by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, before even convening the committee that usually makes that determination. Officials say it may last for months.
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Donald Trump is expected to swear in Kevin Warsh as the chair of the Federal Reserve around 11:30 am Friday morning.
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We’ll keep you up to date with the swearing-in ceremony.
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Ahead of Trump swearing in Kevin Warsh as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a statement about Warsh’s appointment:
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Kevin Warsh starts his tenure with his credibility in tatters. Having proven himself to be Donald Trump’s sock puppet, I worry Mr Warsh will prioritize the President’s political interests over the economic well-being of American families.
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Warren added that as Warsh begins to lead the institution, “every decision he makes will be tainted because of his refusal to answer who cut him a $100 million check for his secret investments – and what they may want from him as the new Fed Chair.”
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Amid almost a week of reactions from Democrats and Republicans to Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund, Trump has posted about it on Truth Social Friday morning:
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I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward. I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK IN of Mar-a-Lago, for an absolute fortune. Instead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!
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Earlier Trump wrote: “Stop playing games and PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!”
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Rubio also gets pressed on the US involvement in the Nato Force Model, which is essentially the alliance’s framework for making forces available in case of a crisis.
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He heavily suggests there will be adjustment and changes there, but declines to reveal what they will be.
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He says “it ties back to the same conversation,” and “I think there’s going to be some announcements on it later today, if it hasn’t come out already.”
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But he says it’s not really new, and it’s just part of the broader process of the US re-evaluating its commitments around the world and the best structure to respond to that.
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“I will let the folks in the Department of War and over at Nato make those announcements, but this is not a decision that was made on the back of a napkin,” he says.
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He insists “this is all technical work that’s being done by military people.”
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“These are not political decisions.”
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Asked about the potental future US adjustments to their military presence in Europe, Rubio says:
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“I think what’s happening now is that any decision that’s announced or made is viewed through the broader context of some of the frictions that we’ve had in recent months, but at the end of the day, I think it’s well understood in the alliance that the United States troop presence in Europe is going to be adjusted, that that work was already ongoing, and it’s been done in coordination with our allies.
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I’m not saying they’re going to be thrilled about it, but they certainly are aware of it. You know, we have obligations in the Indo-Pacific, we have obligations in the Middle East, we have obligations in the western hemisphere, so this has been an ongoing process, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody.”
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Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s party chair, delayed releasing the DNC autopsy report, a 192-page analysis on the party’s 2024 election loss, for months – now that he has released the controversial report, he is facing mounting questions and a lack of confidence in his leadership.
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David Hogg, the former DNC vice-chair, called on Martin to resign on Thursday. In a statement, Hogg wrote:
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“This autopsy and the months-long debate about even releasing the report, is a demoralizing joke … Ken Martin should resign, and the DNC should select a new leader who demonstrates competence, creativity, moral clarity, and a relentless commitment to actually changing the broken Democratic Party brand.”
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Some on Capitol Hill, including Seth Moulton, a representative from Massachusetts, have also called for Martin’s resignation.
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“He should resign,” Moulton told Axios, adding that it’s “Utterly nuts it took us this long to release the autopsy.”
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House Republicans canceled a scheduled Thursday vote on a war powers resolution aimed at ending the US war with Iran, a measure that likely would have advanced had the vote been held.
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Donald Trump has announced he will deploy an “additional” 5,000 US troops to Poland, just days after the Pentagon controversially halted a long-planned deployment of forces to the country – the largest on Nato’s eastern flank.
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Nato’s secretary general Mark Rutte struck somewhat more cautious note, saying the bloc’s trajectory was one that was prioritising a stronger Europe, “less reliant on the US”.
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On Thursday, the US president admitted that he might skip Donald Trump Jr’s wedding, reportedly taking place in the Bahamas over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, citing that he has “this thing called Iran”.
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US arms sales to Taiwan have been “paused” to ensure the US military has enough munitions for its Iran operations, according to Washington’s acting navy secretary.
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The US president, Donald Trump, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Thursday again raised the spectre of military intervention in Cuba, a day after the administration announced criminal charges against Raúl Castro, the island’s former leader.
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The US president Donald Trump postponed signing an executive order on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine the US position in its AI competition with China.
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The order would create a voluntary framework for AI developers to engage with the U.S. government before the public release of advanced AI models, two sources familiar with the order told Reuters.
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“I think it gets in the way of, you know, we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
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Trump did not specify which parts of the executive order he objected to.
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It comes after the Trump became the first US president in nearly a decade to visit China, and described his meeting with his counterpart Xi Jinping as “very successful”.
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The administration’s plans were reportedly put on hold after a push from xAI founder Elon Musk and other big tech figures.
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Replying to a post on X about the reporting, Musk said, “this is false,” adding: “I still don’t know what was in that EO and the president only spoke to me after declining to sign.”
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Trump announces Aaron Lukas as acting director of national intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard steps down as national intelligence director. Gabbard shared a statement on X, confirming that she is resigning from her post as national intelligence director, citing her husband’s illness. Gabbard told the president she is “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.”
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Trump swears in Kevin Warsh as the new chair of the Federal Reserve as his administration struggles to shrug off mounting concerns over affordability. Warsh will confront a darkening economic outlook, with inflation hitting a three-year high of 3.8% in April.
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Trump claims he selflessly gave up IRS settlement in return for $1.8bn fund ‘helping others’. Amid almost a week of reactions from Democrats and Republicans to Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund, Trump said: “I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE!”
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Marco Rubio said Trump ‘disappointment’ with Nato will be discussed at summit. While meeting with foreign ministers of the military alliance, Rubio emphasized that he expected the rift would be discussed at the July meeting in Ankara, making the summit “one of the more important” in Nato’s 77-year history.
Bruce Blackman, currently a county executive of Nassau County, New York is vying to be the Governor of the state this November, challenging the incumbent Kathy Hochul. Seven of the 10 people to hold that county executive office since 1938 have been Republicans.
On the DNC’s autopsy report released Thursday, Trump said that it was riddled with typos.
Trump is hitting many of the talking points he has been hitting recently, that the GOP is against: illegal aliens all over the country, rigged elections, voters voting without voter ID, transgender people participating in sports and in support of eliminating mail-in ballots.
Companies and rich people are leaving New York, Trump said adding that the streets were dirty and riddled with crime. The Guardian has not verified his claims of companies and people in high tax brackets leaving the city or state of New York.
Mike Lawler and Bruce Blakeman, both running for seats in the upcoming election will turn this around for the GOP, Trump said.
Trump speaks at community college event in New York state
Trump has begun speaking at Hudson Valley, talking about how much New York means to him, and how the GOP must take it back.
“New Yorkers are people who built Wall Street into the world’s financial capital, who turned Broadway into the heart of American culture and entertainment, who dug the Erie Canal, and launched 1,000 innovations that built the middle class, the middle class of our country, who really built the country,” he said.
Trump will appear with incumbent Mike Lawler, representative from New York, and talk about affordability, tax cuts and upcoming midterm elections.
President Trump touched down in Suffern, New York, to speak at an event Rockland Community College Eugene Levy Fieldhouse a little after 3pm. The event is expected to begin shortly.
In her tenure as DNI, Tulsi Gabbard has been in the spotlight a number of times, including most recently in March when Gabbard testified that her office seized voting machines from Puerto Rico at the request of the office of the US attorney in Puerto Rico.
The prosecutor in question has been the center of a push by Trump supporters to revive a long-discredited conspiracy theory purporting to link Venezuela to Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, the Guardian has previously reported. Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, the conspiracy theory maintains, controlled electronic voting machines worldwide and remotely manipulated results in 2020 to deprive Trump of a presidential victory.
The Guardian reported, in February, Gabbard blocked NSA from sharing a report about foreign intelligence with the White House chief of staff, according to a whistleblower.
The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to her attention. But rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, Gabbard took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, according to the whistleblower’s attorney, Andrew Bakaj. One day after meeting Wiles, Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report.
In September the Guardian reported that Gabbard did not inform the White House that her office was revoking the security clearances of 37 people – including top deputies to the CIA director, John Ratcliffe – before it happened in August, according to three people familiar with matter.
The move caused consternation because it resulted in the White House not having an opportunity to closely vet the list before it became public and there appeared to be no paper trail from the president directing the effort, the people said.
After wishing Tulsi Gabbard’s husband a swift recovery, Democratic Senator Adam Schiff said the departing DNI’s only advantageous contribution to US national security was her resignation, on a post on X:
While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation’s national security is her resignation.
She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more.
We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.
Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Nicole Saphier, sells an herbal supplement that contains an ingredient prohibited by the US military and which health experts have warned can cause liver damage.
Dr Nicole Saphier’s record of selling dietary supplements, which are only loosely regulated in the US, has raised concern among doctors and consumer advocates, some of whom allege she sells “snake oil”.
Amazon said it had opened an investigation into the products after the Guardian inquired whether they were in compliance with the company’s policies on supplement sales.
“Nobody who prides themselves as rigorous about science is in the supplement business,” said Dr Peter Lurie of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food and health watchdog organization. Lurie has been an outspoken critic of what he called wellness industry “grifters” inside health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement, who he said sold consumers poorly regulated supplements with unsupported claims.
The surgeon general is considered America’s doctor, responsible for communicating the best scientific information to Americans about how to improve their health. Previous surgeons general have issued influential warnings on tobacco use and educated the public about Aids.
Saphier specializes in breast cancer as a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New Jersey and is a former contributor to Fox News. She is Trump’s third pick for the job after his first two failed to advance in the Senate.
Reacting to Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the vice-chairman of the Senate’s select committee on intelligence, said his thoughts were with Gabbard and her family as her husband battles cancer and he appreciated the different leadership roles she has undertaken in her career.
On the next DNI, Warner said:
The Director of National Intelligence is entrusted with one of the most serious responsibilities in government: providing objective, fact-based intelligence to policymakers and the American people, regardless of politics or pressure from the White House … The next DNI 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.
Trump announces Aaron Lukas as acting director of national intelligence
In a post on Truth Social, the president announced Aaron Lukas, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, as the acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard, whose resignation will come into effect on 30 June.
Trump regretted Gabbard’s departure and wished good health to her husband, who is battling a rare form of bone cancer. He said:
Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her. Her highly respected Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence.
