Trump was traveling with Perry in Texas, where the president would be attending a political rally in the evening. Trump said he already had Perry's replacement picked out. Thursday evening, Perry posted a video on Twitter and wrote that it's "been the honor of a lifetime" serving as energy secretary under Trump. Perry's resignation notice comes amid questions about his role in a White House effort to pressure Ukraine into launching an investigation that some conservatives thought would help Trump's re-election campaign.
Perry, who was Texas' longest serving governor and ran against Trump for president in before joining his administration, has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He also has insisted that actions he took regarding Ukraine were intended to advance U. In recent weeks, Perry has repeatedly knocked down suggestions that he planned to resign, including telling the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday that he planned to still be in the job on Thanksgiving. In the interview, Perry also seemed to point the finger at Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani , for trying to press the newly installed Ukrainian government to conduct an investigation.
According to Perry, he wanted Trump to call Ukraine's new president to forge a positive new relationship between the two countries. But Trump referred him to his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who told Perry that Ukraine manufactured evidence used to launch the U. Giuliani said Ukraine had Democrat Hillary Clinton's email server and fabricated evidence that implicated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Manafort was sent to jail for tax and bank fraud on charges unrelated to the Trump campaign and tied to his political consulting work in Ukraine. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Allan Smith.
Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know. Commerce, Education, and the … what's the third one there? Let's see. Then he stumbled. When coaxed by other candidates and the moderator — did he mean the Environmental Protection Agency, maybe?
A few minutes later, Perry remembered — it was the Department of Energy he wanted to get rid of! That was it. The Department of Energy is a strange beast, cobbled together from existing agencies in at a time when oil crises were raging and calls for a national energy policy were in the air. But energy is only a small fraction of what it actually does. The nuclear weapons and environmental cleanup programs tend to remain fixed from administration to administration.
But the energy programs have changed significantly with each new president. George W. Bush, for instance, asked Congress to prioritize nuclear power and carbon capture and storage technology for coal. Under President Barack Obama, meanwhile, the Department of Energy has greatly expanded a variety of clean energy programs — the stimulus bill of created massive loan guarantee programs for solar, battery, and electric car companies.
These programs have played an important role in developing new energy technologies. The techniques behind hydraulic fracturing, which has flooded the US with cheap shale gas, were refined with help from the Department of Energy.
The agency has also played a supporting role in driving down solar costs with its Sunshot Initiative. As governor of Texas from to , Perry strongly favored expanded fossil fuel production, as this great piece from Kate Galbraith of the Texas Tribune explored.
Between and , natural gas production rose 42 percent in Texas. Oil production rose percent. Perry generally kept in place the loose regulations on oil and gas that existed under his predecessor in Texas, George W.
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