(NewsNation) — Trump transition team co-chair Tulsi Gabbard said she’d be “honored to serve” in the president-elect’s cabinet.
“If there’s a way I can help achieve the goal of preventing World War 3 and nuclear war? Of course,” Gabbard said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “CUOMO.” “But again, President Trump will make his decision.”
The United States Army Reserve officer said the way to honor veterans is to ensure “war is a last resort.” Gabbard said Trump understands the American people’s desire to only fight wars as a last resort.
Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, endorsed Donald Trump in August during a National Guard Association gathering in Michigan where Trump was also speaking.
Gabbard ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in the Democratic primary in 2020. In the years since ending her bid, she has exited Congress, left the Democratic Party and appeared at events such as the Conservative Political Action Conference.
On Sunday, Trump posted that former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan would be joining as the “border czar,” and the next day, he said his former adviser, Stephen Miller, would be deputy chief of policy.
Trump is set to meet Wednesday with President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss the transition of power.
Gabbard said the goal of Trump’s transition team is to “bring people together who support President Trump’s vision” and “prevent what happened last time.”
“Trump ended up with some neocons around him who were trying to undermine his objectives so they could feed their goals of continuing to keep us in a perpetual state of war,” Gabbard said.
