Tech Giants Team Up With Trump on New Science Council

The U. S. President has set up a new advisory board that brings together leaders from the worlds of crypto, blockchain, artificial intelligence and other high‑tech sectors. The council was revived in January 2025 by an executive order and will soon include up to 24 experts. Among the first hires are Meta’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, Coinbase co‑founder Fred Ehrsam, Nvidia’s boss Jensen Huang and Oracle’s former tech head Larry Ellison. These figures will help shape policy on science, technology, education and innovation for the administration. The group is run by two co‑chairs: David Sacks, who heads the White House’s AI and crypto initiatives, and Michael Kratsios, Trump’s science adviser. The plan is to keep the council active by adding new members in the coming months. Several of the tech leaders have already met with Trump or his team. Huang has discussed export controls on Nvidia chips, while Zuckerberg visited the former president’s Mar‑a‑Lago club in late 2024 and attended a White House dinner with other tech CEOs in September 2025.

The appointments came just after the administration issued a national AI framework that urges Congress to pass laws that would override state regulations. Trump is also pushing Republicans to adopt the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration. He said he will not sign any other bills until this act passes. In the realm of digital assets, a comprehensive market‑structure bill known as the CLARITY Act passed the House in July 2025. However, progress stalled in the Senate because of recesses, a government shutdown and concerns from industry leaders about stablecoin yields. The Senate Agriculture Committee moved forward with its version in January, but a key markup session in the Banking Committee was delayed after Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong said his company could not support the bill as written. No new date for that session has been announced yet.

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