Her departure comes after the U.S. launched a joint military campaign against Iran with Israel that tested her place in an unexpectedly hawkish administration.

Tulsi Gabbard, the top-ranking U.S. intelligence official, told President Donald Trump on Friday that she is resigning from her role following her husband’s cancer diagnosis, according to her letter obtained by NBC News.

Tulsi Gabbard notified President Trump she is resigning as DNI, citing her husband Abraham's diagnosis with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.

The outspoken critic of foreign interventions had largely been sidelined from President Trump’s national security team.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her position, according to a new report. In a resignation letter Friday given to Fox News, Gabbard wrote that she’ll be taking time to help her husband.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is handing in her resignation next month after her husband was diagnosed with bone cancer. Gabbard told President Donald Trump the news during a meeting on Friday and submitted her formal resignation letter.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is stepping down after informing President Donald Trump that she will leave her post to care for her husband, who has been diagnosed with “an extremely rare form of bone cancer,

President Donald Trump’s Cabinet has been rocked by the abrupt resignation of Tulsi Gabbard, who said she was giving up her post as Director of National Intelligence to support her husband through a cancer battle.