- The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Patrick Witt’s temporary detail to its crypto council has expired.
- Witt, a Defense Department employee, was the council’s only remaining staffer, according to a source cited by journalist Eleanor Terrett.
- The CLARITY Act stalled on 15 September, when a Senate procedural vote failed 49 to 50 with 60 votes needed.
Patrick Witt has left his post as executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, the White House confirmed on Wednesday.
His temporary assignment to the council had expired, an official told journalist Eleanor Terrett in an email. She had asked the White House three times over the previous week whether Witt still held the job. The official’s statement thanked Witt for his service and named no successor.
Witt declined to comment to Terrett. He has not posted about his exit on X, where his most recent post went up on 2 October.
Witt is a Defense Department employee who was on loan to the council, a source familiar with the matter told Terrett. The same source said he deferred his Georgia National Guard service earlier this year and is expected to resume it.
That source also described Witt as the council’s only remaining staffer. His deputy director, Harry Jung, left at the end of July. Witt also outlasted David Sacks, whose term as the White House’s crypto and AI czar ended earlier this year.
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A Year on the CLARITY Act
Witt took over the council in August 2025, after Bo Hines resigned to return to the private sector. Witt was then acting director of the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital.
The House had passed the CLARITY Act 294 to 134 on 17 July 2025. That bill would set up a system for the SEC and the CFTC to regulate the offer and sale of digital commodities.
In February, Witt hosted banks and crypto firms at the White House to settle a fight over stablecoin yield. The White House gave both sides a deadline to agree on a compromise.
Banks worry that stablecoins paying yield could pull deposits away from them, according to law firm Orrick.
Senate Vote Falls Short
On 15 September, a Senate vote to begin considering the bill failed 49 to 50, the Senate’s roll call record shows. The motion needed 60 votes, and one senator did not vote.
Stablecoin yield and the bill’s ethics provisions were the two main sticking points, Orrick wrote in an October client alert.
Democrats argued the ethics provisions did not stop a sitting president from profiting from digital assets, AMINA analyst Dhruvang Choudhari wrote the day after the vote. No Democrat voted for the motion, he noted.
Senator Mark Warner said the bill failed to address a conflict of interest over presidential profits from crypto. Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz said at the time that the bill could return in the lame-duck session after the November midterm elections.
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