Gabbard leaving ‘not a huge surprise’: Byron York

Published May 23, 2026 2:06pm ET | Updated May 23, 2026 2:06pm ET



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. 

“She has never been really in line with the new sort of interventionist Trump foreign policy, and there were reports that she was kept out of the loop when decisions were made on issues like Venezuela and Iran,” York said on Fox News’s America Reports Friday.

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