A White House official who asked not to be identified cast the issue as one of timing: Mr. Trump, the official said, is still reviewing candidates to be his chief science adviser, considers the science

A White House official who asked not to be identified cast the issue as one of timing: Mr. Trump, the official said, is still reviewing candidates to be his chief science adviser, considers the science
and technology office important and will soon have a new staff for it.
is the conduit for scientific perspective and scrutiny to the president
and is a priority in White House decision making,” said Danny Weitzner, a former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration and now the director of internet policy research at M. I.T.
Mr. Trump has not yet named his top advisers on technology or science,
and so far, has made just one hire: Michael Kratsios, the former chief of staff for Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor and one of the president’s wealthiest supporters, as the deputy chief technology officer.
Under Mr. Obama, the science and technology office included 19 policy advisers in the environment
and energy division, 14 in the national security and international affairs division, nine in the science division and 20 in the technology and innovation division.
Scores of departures by scientists and Silicon Valley technology experts who advised President Trump’s predecessor have all
but wiped out the larger White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.