Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying she needed to step away as her husband battles cancer.

Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is the latest woman to exit the second Trump administration amid a season of shakeups

Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she is resigning as President Trump's director of national intelligence in order to support her husband who is battling a rare form of bone cancer. In a letter to Trump,

Gabbard said she would step down effective June 30 to care for her husband, Abraham Williams, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer

The former Democratic congresswoman said she would be leaving her job following her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

Any successor to the departing national intelligence director would have to get through an increasingly frustrated Senate Republican Conference.

Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) on Friday floated Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) as a possible successor to outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, saying the House Republican would likely have no trouble getting through the confirmation process.

Aaron Lukas, the former CIA officer selected to replace Tulsi Gabbard as spy chief, aligns with some of President Trump’s beliefs, including that agencies have become infected with wokeness.

Aaron Lukas, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, will serve as acting intelligence chief after Tulsi Gabbard leaves her role June 30.

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation doesn’t come as a huge surprise, given her stance on some Trump administration policies.