Tulsi Gabbard skipped a classified briefing to Congress on President Trump's Iran strikes, fueling speculation that she has been sidelined within the administration.

One of the most prominent anti-war voices in Trump's Cabinet, Gabbard has been dogged by reports claiming she is out of step with the president and his team.

Her failure to appear at a Senate briefing on Thursday came after an intelligence community leak that downplayed the success of Trump's strikes.

Gabbard skips briefing

The White House has rejected the leaked Pentagon report, which came with low confidence and was given to CNN, as "fake news" driven by bad actors.

Gabbard, who is Trump's intelligence director, was appointed by Trump to clean up the "Deep State" that derailed his first term with false accusations of "Russian collusion."

While Gabbard shares Trump's suspicion of the intelligence community, it could be imagined that Trump is not pleased with Gabbard in the wake of the Iran leak, which has given Democrats a new dubious talking point to peddle.

Gabbard was represented at Thursday's briefing by CIA director John Ratcliffe, but the White House has downplayed the notion of a rift.

"The media is turning this into something it's not," a top White House official told the Washington Post.

"Fake News"

Gabbard's absence from the Senate briefing comes after her previous testimony on Iran was used to create negative headlines for the Trump administration.

A MAGA rift had appeared to spread to the White House when Trump dismissed Gabbard's March assessment that Iran is not developing a nuclear bomb. But CNN's Kaitlan Collins only gave Trump a snippet of Gabbard's comments, which noted that Iran's uranium stockpiles are at an "unprecedented" level.

"The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division," Gabbard wrote on X.

Democrats have been eager to exploit the perception of a divide, with Senator Chris Murphy (D-Ct.) claiming Gabbard was intentionally excluded from the briefing because she is not toeing the line.

“I think it stands to reason that they knew that she was not going to toe the line, that she was likely going to refuse to say what the administration wants, which is that the program was obliterated,” Murphy told Collins.

In fact, Gabbard has said Iran will take "years" to rebuild, while dismissing reporting to the contrary as an effort by the "propaganda machine" to undermine Trump.