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| Trump Has Serious Decisions to Make. (But First, a Twitter Rant.) | |
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| President-elect Donald J. Trump returned to New York to continue filling out his administration as one of his top advisers publicly and vigorously criticized Mitt Romney, who is being considered for secretary of state. Congress is set for a post-Thanksgiving return to Washington to try to finish this year’s business and avoid a spending fight before federal money runs out next week. Meanwhile, the president-elect is on Twitter again. | President-elect Donald J. Trump returned to New York to continue filling out his administration as one of his top advisers publicly and vigorously criticized Mitt Romney, who is being considered for secretary of state. Congress is set for a post-Thanksgiving return to Washington to try to finish this year’s business and avoid a spending fight before federal money runs out next week. Meanwhile, the president-elect is on Twitter again. |
| Monday was supposed to be about getting back to work for the president-elect, but before Mr. Trump could start reviewing his next appointments, he was immersed in a controversy of his own making on Sunday, charging that the election he won had been marred by fraud. | Monday was supposed to be about getting back to work for the president-elect, but before Mr. Trump could start reviewing his next appointments, he was immersed in a controversy of his own making on Sunday, charging that the election he won had been marred by fraud. |
| In a Twitter rant that grew more specific even as it left facts far behind, Mr. Trump first said his popular vote deficit — 2.24 million and climbing — would be reversed if not for three million votes by illegal immigrants, a charge that seemed to emerge from baseless partisan “fake news.” | In a Twitter rant that grew more specific even as it left facts far behind, Mr. Trump first said his popular vote deficit — 2.24 million and climbing — would be reversed if not for three million votes by illegal immigrants, a charge that seemed to emerge from baseless partisan “fake news.” |
| On Sunday night he went further, focusing his wrath on three states he lost. | On Sunday night he went further, focusing his wrath on three states he lost. |
| The response, from Democrats and Republicans, has not been kind. And many say his allegations are only bolstering Democratic calls for a thorough auditing of the voting results. Democrats and the Green Party presidential nominee, Jill Stein, must decide in the coming days whether to file for a recount in Michigan and possibly pursue legal action over the vote in Pennsylvania. | The response, from Democrats and Republicans, has not been kind. And many say his allegations are only bolstering Democratic calls for a thorough auditing of the voting results. Democrats and the Green Party presidential nominee, Jill Stein, must decide in the coming days whether to file for a recount in Michigan and possibly pursue legal action over the vote in Pennsylvania. |
| Mr. Trump is expected to have two meetings on Tuesday with possible secretaries of state — Mr. Romney and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to two people briefed on the schedule. | |
| Mr. Romney has been the preferred choice of Vice President-elect Mike Pence and some business leaders from whom Mr. Trump has heard. But contention over him possibly being chosen has led Mr. Trump’s aides to open the process to other options, such as Mr. Corker. | |
| The internal but strikingly visible feud over Mr. Romney’s fate was highlighted by Kellyanne Conway, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, who used Twitter and an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” to bash the 2012 Republican nominee for undermining Mr. Trump during the 2016 campaign. | The internal but strikingly visible feud over Mr. Romney’s fate was highlighted by Kellyanne Conway, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, who used Twitter and an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” to bash the 2012 Republican nominee for undermining Mr. Trump during the 2016 campaign. |
| Another important matter: Will Ben Carson accept the post of secretary of housing and urban development? Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate, said he was praying about it over turkey and football. | Another important matter: Will Ben Carson accept the post of secretary of housing and urban development? Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate, said he was praying about it over turkey and football. |
| The 114th Congress returns to Washington this week for one big order of business — besides keeping the government’s lights on. | The 114th Congress returns to Washington this week for one big order of business — besides keeping the government’s lights on. |
| In one of its final and most significant acts, the House on Wednesday is set to pass the 21st Century Cures Act, an ambitious and pricey initiative that would deregulate some forms of drugs and medical devices and would fund President Obama’s cancer “moonshot,” Alzheimer’s research, regenerative medicine and efforts to address opioid addiction. The agreement, reached between House and Senate negotiators over the Thanksgiving break, should be passed next month by the Senate. | In one of its final and most significant acts, the House on Wednesday is set to pass the 21st Century Cures Act, an ambitious and pricey initiative that would deregulate some forms of drugs and medical devices and would fund President Obama’s cancer “moonshot,” Alzheimer’s research, regenerative medicine and efforts to address opioid addiction. The agreement, reached between House and Senate negotiators over the Thanksgiving break, should be passed next month by the Senate. |
| The legislation’s total funding for the National Institutes of Health is $4.8 billion, a reduction from what the House sought last year. The bill, large as it is, is expected to pass with little debate and lots of lobbying fingerprints — and a bipartisan nod to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who wanted the moonshot. | The legislation’s total funding for the National Institutes of Health is $4.8 billion, a reduction from what the House sought last year. The bill, large as it is, is expected to pass with little debate and lots of lobbying fingerprints — and a bipartisan nod to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who wanted the moonshot. |
| Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader and longtime head of the embattled House Democrats, faces something of a reckoning this week. | |
| Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio, a burly former high school football player from Youngstown, has had the temerity to challenge her for the minority leader post, saying the party needs to face the reality that Hillary Clinton’s losses in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania show that Democrats have lost touch with their working-class roots. | |
| Even if, as likely, Ms. Pelosi survives the vote on Wednesday, she has shown vulnerability. The leadership slate that she has introduced includes Representative Cheri Bustos of a working-class corner of Illinois. In a letter to colleagues, she introduced her as “a leader representing the Heartland” who “has fought for manufacturing jobs and the needs of our veterans in rural America.” | |
| Another offering? Representative Matt Cartwright, who “knows how to take the concerns of his constituents in working-class Pennsylvania and translate them into a message that moves people.” | |
| The pushback? The Congressional Black Caucus fears its own power is being diluted. |