Tulsi Gabbard, Husband Abraham Need Our Prayers To See Them Through Bone Cancer Battle

Her reason for stepping down from making strides as National Intelligence Director is to be there to care for her husband, Abraham Williams, recently diagnosed and now fighting “an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”

As she wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump, posted on X, her husband, Abraham, “faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months,” and she “must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.”

"Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage," Gabbard wrote. "His strength and love have sustained me through every challenge. I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position.”

Tulsi and Abraham married on April 10, 2015, and theirs was a marriage made in Heaven.

The two have been surfing, singing and loving their way through life with any spare time they could muster through busy portfolios.

Williams is a talented cinematographer, raised in Hawaii.(People, May 22, 2026)

“Williams' work is also what led him to connect with Gabbard.

“According to The New York Times, the pair, who had been "acquainted for some time," got to know each other in 2012 when he volunteered on the shoots for Gabbard's campaign advertisements, she told the outlet. (She had been running for U.S. Congress at the time.)

"About a year and a half later, he asked me out for the first time at a birthday party that a mutual friend of ours threw for me," she wrote over email. "As we got to know each other, we realized how much we actually had in common.”

“Gabbard wrote that their friendship and relationship grew over their "mutual love for the ocean and surfing.”

“Williams asked Gabbard to marry him while on a surfboard, the politician told The New York Times.

“I was home from D.C., and the day before Thanksgiving, he mentioned he wanted to go for a sunset surf on the South Shore that night," she told the outlet. "I was in meetings all day, and by the time we left, the sun was starting to set. We got stuck in traffic at a really long red light, and he was getting so frustrated. I couldn't understand what the big deal was.”

"Gabbard and Williams got married in a Vedic ceremony in Hawaii in April 10, 2015, per The New York Times.

“In an outdoor affair that concluded as the sun was setting behind the mountains on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard wed cinematographer Abraham Williams Thursday in a Vedic ceremony that the bride deemed “literally just perfect.” (People, April 10, 2015)

“It was a deeply spiritual, traditional ceremony that held great meaning for Abraham and I,” Gabbard, the only Hindu member of Congress, tells PEOPLE the morning after the wedding. “It brought all the important elements of our life together.”

“It really was a Hawaiian-style Hindu wedding, from the palm trees to birds of paradise flowers, to the birds chirping in the background.”

“A Brahmin priest officiated the ceremony, and followed the traditional Vedic format going back thousands of years, with a nod to the couple’s beloved Hawaiian home.

"Gabbard’s father walked her down the aisle to meet Williams, 26, while her mother tied a flower lei around the couple’s right hands, which were symbolically stacked on top of one another.

“Although much of the ceremony was in Sanskrit, the couple exchanged vows they wrote themselves in English – a part of the ceremony Gabbard said she found especially meaningful.

“I was moved to tears when he said his vows to me,” she said, adding that she didn’t know in advance what he was going to say. “That was very, very special.”

“It was far beyond what I dreamed of,” she says, “Literally, it was perfect.”

“Gabbard’s letter to the president adds that 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.”(Daily Signal, May 22, 2026)

"The intelligence chief believes she “made significant progress at the ODNI” over her tenure, which includes “advancing unprecedented transparency and restoring integrity in the intelligence community.”

"During her tenure as director of national intelligence, Gabbard initiated a restructuring of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence called “ODNI 2.0,” with which she sought to right-size the intelligence community under the belief that the office had become bloated.

"Gabbard also launched initiatives aimed at “eliminating politicization and weaponization within the intelligence community.” She dismissed, reassigned, or revoked security clearances from individuals in the intelligence community she believed were responsible for politicizing intelligence.

"The director also released critical information on the intelligence community’s role in creating the Russian-collusion narrative in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the 2016 election of Trump.

"Nevertheless, Gabbard claims “there is still important work to be done” and that she is “fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the coming weeks.”

"Gabbard earned her Cabinet position after a political conversion.

"The once 2020 Democrat presidential hopeful became a supporter of Trump over the course of the 2024 election cycle.

"During the 2024 campaign, she became one of Trump’s closest advisers on how to combat former Vice President Kamala Harris because of Gabbard’s previous success debating Harris in 2020.

"Gabbard’s departure comes at a critical juncture for the Trump administration.

"Seen as one of the voices for foreign policy restraint in the administration, she has led intelligence-gathering efforts over the course of the United States’ war with Iran.

Tulsi Gabbard will be sadly missed as the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.

All who love her will not only miss her but wholeheartedly wish her and her husband Abraham the very best.

Prayers for Tulsi and Abraham that God Almighty will see them through this husband and wife battle of “an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”