The White House crypto council has no staff left. On Wednesday 14 October, the White House confirmed that Patrick Witt’s temporary posting as the council’s executive director had ended. No successor has been named, and the White House has not answered questions about who might take the job.
The exit lands one month after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, the bill that would set federal rules for US crypto markets. Witt had been the administration’s point person on that legislation, coordinating Senate negotiations after the House passed its version more than a year ago. He was also its main public voice on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the federal store of seized Bitcoin that Trump created by executive order in March 2025.
