Patrick Witt’s temporary posting as executive director of the White House Crypto Council has ended, leaving the policy body without a publicly identified official overseeing crypto policy day to day. The White House confirmed the departure in an email cited by Crypto America podcast host Eleanor Terrett, thanking Witt for his service to the Trump administration and wishing him well. Witt was a Department of Defense employee temporarily assigned to the council and had placed his Georgia National Guard service on hold earlier this year. He is expected to return to that service. Witt became executive director in August 2025 after Bo Hines returned to the private sector. He was the council’s only remaining staffer after Deputy Director Harry Jung left at the end of July. David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto czar, left in March after reaching the 130-day limit for special government employees, and no replacement was named. The development follows the Senate’s failure on September 15 to advance the CLARITY Act, which needed 60 votes to proceed and would establish federal rules for U.S. crypto markets. Witt had served as the administration’s main public voice on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, created by President Donald Trump in March 2025 to hold seized Bitcoin. In a recent interview, Witt said officials were seeking ways to add more Bitcoin to the reserve. Wallets linked to the U.S. government moved about $1 billion in Bitcoin last week, according to Arkham. DLA Piper says Congress may not revisit the CLARITY Act before January 2027, leaving the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to continue developing crypto rules independently in the meantime.