Tulsi Gabbard’s net worth: From legislator to national intelligence chief
Tulsi Gabbard began her career as a Hawaii legislator and parlayed her combat military service into becoming the Director of National Intelligence. Here’s how much she’s worth and how much she’s paid as intelligence chief.
Tulsi Gabbard, a career politician, was sworn in as the eighth Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in February 2025.
As U.S. intelligence chief, she leads an agency that oversees 17 intelligence organizations (including the National Security Agency), and she is tasked with providing objective national intelligence information to President Trump and other members of the executive branch.
Gabbard started out as a Democratic Hawaii legislator and then enlisted in the state’s Army National Guard. After her military service, she became a congresswoman representing her home state and caught national attention as an aspiring presidential candidate for the Democratic Party.
