President Donald Trump’s chief adviser to crypto, David Sacks, works under a “special government officer” status intended to be for officials earning an important but temporary duty with the federal government, and Senator Elizabeth Warren has written a letter with other Democrats in the Congress asking him if he asked him.
Such an employee is not allowed to earn more than 130 days a year, according to the law, and the Wednesday letter to Sacks asks him to put a number on the days that the prominent venture capitalist has worked for Trump in the role of crypto and artificial intelligence -czar. According to the rules, every day he has done work, the work counts against the 130, although the limit in some agencies has often been guided by a “good faith” estimate of how long the officials expect to serve.
“If you have worked every working day, your 130th day on July 25, 2025,” according to the letter signed by Warren and several other members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, including Bernie Sanders. The legislators called their review of this timeline since the administration’s 20 January a “investigation”.
“If you have really passed the 130th day brand, you undermine the careful balance that Congress has struck to create the SGE designation. It is only because of your designation as a sge that you have been able to continue working for and be paid for by crafts Ventures in your time in government,” Read the letter.
Trump has used the temporary employment status in a high -profile way that also employs Tesla CEO Elon Musk in this capacity. The staff tool is designed to be used to bring expertise into the government without having to clear some of the bureaucratic hangers of typical employment. Earlier this year, other Democrats in Congress pushed a bill that tried to inhibit such employees from using the role to seeking financial gain, and Warren also pursued legislation to restrict SGES.
There have been more than 170 working days since Trump joined. Since then, SACKS has run the president’s aggressive pro-crypto agenda, which has so far celebrated a larger new law to regulate American stablecoin issuers led to a signing ceremony in the White House in which Sacks participated.
He has also served as head of the administration’s daily crypto advisor, who had originally been Bo Hines until he traveled to work for Tether as his top US director. Patrick Witt replaced Hines as CEO of the President’s Council for Digital Assets advisers, and he told Coindesk that he is still working closely with sacks.
