The U.S. intelligence community has ended publication of its flagship Global Trends report, a document long regarded as a barometer of looming global challenges from climate change to pandemics.
The move was confirmed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who said the team responsible for the assessment had been disbanded.
Since the late 1990s, the report has been compiled every four years by the National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group and released in the opening months of a new administration.
It has provided sweeping forecasts of political, social and environmental forces shaping the decades ahead.
Former officials said the 2025 edition had been in draft form but ran into friction with the Trump administration, particularly its emphasis on climate risks.
In a statement, Gabbard’s office accused the group of abandoning its mandate and pushing a partisan agenda.
The draft, the statement said, violated “professional analytic tradecraft standards” and clashed with President Trump’s national security priorities.
The decision follows a series of restructuring measures, including the closure of the National Intelligence University and reductions in staff monitoring foreign covert operations and election security.
Gabbard’s aides said the changes were intended to streamline the intelligence community and eliminate redundancy.
Critics, however, warned that eliminating the report risks leaving policymakers blind to emerging global threats.
Jake Sullivan, who served as national security adviser under former President Joe Biden, rejected claims that the Global Trends reports were politically driven.
“To have the director of national security cast aspersions upon the professionalism and public service of dedicated people, I just find basically offensive and wrong,” he told The New York Times.
If a future administration attempts to revive the report, former officials noted, it could face months of delay in rebuilding the analytic team and gathering the necessary data.
