The former Republican presidential candidate is under consideration to become President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of housing and urban development, Trump tweeted midday Tuesday. I am seriously considering Dr. Ben Carson as the head of HUD. He’s never run a federal agency,” Williams told the Hill in an interview. Carson, who met with Trump on Tuesday in New York, was once said to be in the running for secretary of health and human services. “We have had offers, yes,” Carson told Neil Cavuto of Fox News in an interview Tuesday.

Source: Washington Post November 22, 2016 18:10 UTC