White House refutes reports that Science and Technology office unstaffed

An official from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said the department's science division is staffed, despite a report saying the last three employees of the division left last week. It was reported on June 30 that the three staffers, who were holdovers from the Obama administration, departed the office last week, leaving the science division unstaffed. However, an OSTP official said there are currently 35 employees in OSTP, and 12 employees in the department's science division, adding that the division is organized and divided differently under the Trump administration compared to the Obama administration.