Trump Announces New Tech Policy Picks For His Second Term

In a brace of Truth Social posts connected Sunday, Donald Trump announced a group of picks for his administration’s tech argumentation squad that will study to David Sacks, Trump’s “AI and crypto czar.” The picks spot Michael Kratsios, who will lead nan Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) if confirmed by nan Senate.

Kratsios, who served successful Trump’s first connection arsenic nan White House main exertion officer, too concisely held an acting undersecretary domiciled astatine nan Department of Defense adjacent nan extremity of nan term. He later became a managing caput astatine Scale AI and has been helping lead Trump’s tech argumentation modulation team.

The President-elect too picked his erstwhile lawman CTO, Dr. Lynne Parker, arsenic Executive Director of nan Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. Directing nan Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets (AKA nan “Crypto Council”) will beryllium erstwhile assemblage changeable subordinate and unsuccessful Republican legislature campaigner Bo Hines. Advising Trump connected AI argumentation arsenic information of nan OSTP will beryllium Sriram Krishnan, who has extended Silicon Valley experience, pinch roles astatine Andreessen Horowitz, X, Meta, and Snap.

Sacks is adjacent pinch Elon Musk, who Trump has charged pinch gutting nan US authorities arsenic information of nan not-yet-established Department of Government Efficiency — and who precocious helped nonstop Congress into chaos by posting relentlessly to extremity a US spending bill.