Donald Trump makes crypto and defence picks for his second-term team

President-elect Donald Trump filled out key defense and crypto policy roles in his next administration, making billionaire Stephen Feinberg official as the No. 2 at the Pentagon and picking Michael Kratsios to lead tech policy at the White House.
 
Trump will nominate Kratsios to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a Senate-confirmed position. The managing director of Scale AI served in lower technology-related posts in the first Trump administration and has been helping to staff up the Department of Government Efficiency, the Elon Musk-driven initiative to downsize the federal government.  
 
Joining Kratsios in crypto policy roles will be Lynne Parker, Kratsios’ former deputy, who will direct the Presidential Council of Advisers for  Technology, or PCAST, and Bo Hines, a former North Carolina State and Yale football player and unsuccessful Republican congressional candidate. Hines will direct the new Crypto Council.