OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
8:11 AM – Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was reportedly diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after leaving her position within the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ).
Bondi, 60, underwent treatment and is in recovery, according to Axios on Tuesday.
Katie Miller, a former White House staffer and podcast host who is married to White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, reposted the report on her X platform.
“Pam has been quietly kicking cancer’s a** the last few weeks,” she wrote on Tuesday evening, adding that Bondi has “a heart of gold.”
The report came at the same time as other reports that Bondi was tapped by President Donald Trump to serve on an AI-focused advisory committee, the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The committee is chaired by former White House AI adviser David Sacks and White House science adviser Michael Kratsios, according to Axios. It also reportedly includes Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Bondi was removed from her post as the attorney general last month and temporarily replaced by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was appointed by the president as interim attorney general before a permanent DOJ head is selected.
“I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again,” Bondi said at the time of her ousting from the Justice Department.
At the time, Trump said that she would be transitioning to a private-sector role.
“Pam has been an enormously valuable asset to the president’s team, and I’m thrilled for her and for all of us that she’s going to remain involved in confronting some of the most important issues the administration faces,” Vice President JD Vance said in a statement to Axios.
Most forms of thyroid cancer are highly treatable, mostly through surgically removing the diseased parts of the gland at the back of the neck. Cleveland Clinic reported that thyroid cancer’s five-year survival rate is over 98%, meaning a person with the disease has almost the same likelihood of living as someone without. The cancer usually stays in remission, meaning there are no signs or symptoms of it after treatment.
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