♦ US President-elect Donald Trump named Tulsi Gabbard would serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on 14 November 2024.

♦ With this announcement, she will be the first Hindu Congresswomen who will sit atop the US spy agencies and will act as Trump's intelligence advisor.

♦ She was a former Democrat and the first-ever Hindu elected to the US Congress. She sat between 2013 and 2021 as the Democratic representative for Hawaii.