Policy | March 27, 2026

David Sacks Moves Into Broader Tech Role

Trump's crypto and AI adviser hit the 130-day limit for special government employees and shifted into a wider White House science and technology council.

David Sacks is leaving the narrow job title that made him the White House's crypto and AI czar. Cointelegraph reports that Sacks has finished the 130 days allowed for a special government employee and will now serve as co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, or PCAST. He said the new post will still overlap with the crypto and AI work he has already been doing inside the Trump administration.

Sacks has been tied to most of the administration's recent digital asset push. The source story points to his role in the White House digital asset markets report, the GENIUS Act, and the continuing drive for market structure legislation such as the CLARITY Act. But the committee he is moving into is much wider. PCAST will include leaders from AI, healthcare, quantum computing, and major tech firms, with Fred Ehrsam as the only clearly crypto-native member named in the report.