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| Trump Turns Attention to Secretary of State — and Lobs Cuba Threat | Trump Turns Attention to Secretary of State — and Lobs Cuba Threat |
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| President-elect Donald J. Trump returned to New York to continue filling out his administration as the battle rages on over 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, including a major medical research law. Meanwhile, the president-elect is on Twitter again, threatening the Cuba thaw and lobbing voter fraud charges. | President-elect Donald J. Trump returned to New York to continue filling out his administration as the battle rages on over 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, including a major medical research law. Meanwhile, the president-elect is on Twitter again, threatening the Cuba thaw and lobbing voter fraud charges. |
| Mr. Trump is expected to have three meetings on Monday and Tuesday as the secretary of state sweepstakes heats up — retired Gen. David H. Petraeus, Mr. Romney and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, according to two people briefed on the schedule. | Mr. Trump is expected to have three meetings on Monday and Tuesday as the secretary of state sweepstakes heats up — retired Gen. David H. Petraeus, Mr. Romney and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the 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. | 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. |
| Typical of the pushback, Brent Bozell, conservative media critic: | Typical of the pushback, Brent Bozell, conservative media critic: |
| The pro-Romney camp is doing its own pushback. A person briefed on the process, who asked to remain anonymous to discuss sensitive conversations, said that Mr. Romney had not sought consideration for the secretary of state, and was initially contacted by Mr. Pence. In that first conversation, Mr. Romney made clear to Mr. Pence that he would accept the position if the incoming president offered it, the person said, contradicting the claim from others in Mr. Trump’s circle who are opposed to the potential appointment. | The pro-Romney camp is doing its own pushback. A person briefed on the process, who asked to remain anonymous to discuss sensitive conversations, said that Mr. Romney had not sought consideration for the secretary of state, and was initially contacted by Mr. Pence. In that first conversation, Mr. Romney made clear to Mr. Pence that he would accept the position if the incoming president offered it, the person said, contradicting the claim from others in Mr. Trump’s circle who are opposed to the potential appointment. |
| The debate over Mr. Romney — and before him, Rudolph W. Giuliani — has given an opening to General Petraeus, despite the cloud of scandal that still hangs over him for sharing classified information during an extramarital affair. The former C.I.A. director will meet with the president-elect on Monday afternoon. | The debate over Mr. Romney — and before him, Rudolph W. Giuliani — has given an opening to General Petraeus, despite the cloud of scandal that still hangs over him for sharing classified information during an extramarital affair. The former C.I.A. director will meet with the president-elect on Monday afternoon. |
| Representative Dana Rohrabacher, an iconoclastic Californian who was partial to Vladimir Putin before Putin partiality became cool, is stepping forward as the secretary of state of choice for the Breitbart right. | |
| Mr. Rohrabacher emailed supporters saying that he has been told that he is under consideration for the State Department post, then referred to a Breitbart.com online poll of potential secretaries, which include Mr. Romney, General Petraeus, Mr. Giuliani, John Bolton — and Mr. Rohrabacher. | |
| The president-elect has not held his punches when it has come to denouncing the predations of the deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but he seemed to be keeping his options open on President Obama’s opening to the communist Caribbean nation. | The president-elect has not held his punches when it has come to denouncing the predations of the deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but he seemed to be keeping his options open on President Obama’s opening to the communist Caribbean nation. |
| On Monday, via Twitter, he lobbed a threat about that. | On Monday, via Twitter, he lobbed a threat about that. |
| 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. |
| Roger Stone, Mr. Trump’s longest-serving adviser who has been dismissed by Clinton allies as a conspiracy theorist, posited a theory way back in the summer that many Democrats are latching on to: Voting machines in Wisconsin could be hacked. | Roger Stone, Mr. Trump’s longest-serving adviser who has been dismissed by Clinton allies as a conspiracy theorist, posited a theory way back in the summer that many Democrats are latching on to: Voting machines in Wisconsin could be hacked. |
| “When I brought this up, I was told that I was out of my mind,” Mr. Stone said. “I was talking about the exact same state. Now that they’re bringing it up.” | “When I brought this up, I was told that I was out of my mind,” Mr. Stone said. “I was talking about the exact same state. Now that they’re bringing it up.” |
| The president-elect’s elegant new hotel, built in the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House, has finally secured its second restaurant. | |
| The space at the Trump International Hotel has been empty since the celebrity chefs José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian backed out in protest of Mr. Trump’s incendiary comments about Mexican immigrants during the campaign, prompting legal action by the Trump organization. | |
| Now, Nakazawa, a Japanese omakase bar and dining room, is stepping up with a new restaurant, to be opened by next summer. | |
| “My decisions are not clouded by political views or what I feel in my heart, right or wrong. Anytime that we decide something on business, it’s what’s best for the business,” Alessandro Borgognone, the Nakazawa owner, told Washingtonian magazine. | |
| Visiting foreign dignitaries to Washington have to load up their schedules these days, visiting the government-in-power and the government-in-waiting. So on Monday, France’s defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on the front lines in the war on the Islamic State, is having lunch at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, and signing an agreement on further defense cooperation. | Visiting foreign dignitaries to Washington have to load up their schedules these days, visiting the government-in-power and the government-in-waiting. So on Monday, France’s defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on the front lines in the war on the Islamic State, is having lunch at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, and signing an agreement on further defense cooperation. |
| Then, if recent examples hold, he will be meeting with representatives of the Trump transition — and taking measure of whether the president-elect is likely to follow through on statements made during the campaign about diminishing, or pulling out, of the NATO alliance. | Then, if recent examples hold, he will be meeting with representatives of the Trump transition — and taking measure of whether the president-elect is likely to follow through on statements made during the campaign about diminishing, or pulling out, of the NATO alliance. |
| 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 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. | 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.” | 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.” | 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. | The pushback? The Congressional Black Caucus fears its own power is being diluted. |
| Mr. Trump struggled to draw names as co-hosts for invitations for fund-raisers during his campaign. As president-elect, this is proving to be less of a problem. | Mr. Trump struggled to draw names as co-hosts for invitations for fund-raisers during his campaign. As president-elect, this is proving to be less of a problem. |
| Mr. Trump is the featured attraction at a Dec. 7 fund-raising breakfast in New York for “Trump for America,” which will finance the transition efforts. There are more than 50 names listed on the invitation, which is urging $5,000 per person. | Mr. Trump is the featured attraction at a Dec. 7 fund-raising breakfast in New York for “Trump for America,” which will finance the transition efforts. There are more than 50 names listed on the invitation, which is urging $5,000 per person. |