“Perry said it was the energy problems that pushed him to make a call between Trump and the Ukrainian president,” The Hill saidsaid. “Rick has been with me for three years and it’s been exceptional,” Trump told reporters during a trip to a Louis Vuitton plant near Fort Worth, Texas. Energy Minister Rick Perry will resign at the end of the year, President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday. The president said he and Perry had discussed the secretary’s departure in the past six months, The Hill reported. The Department of Energy said earlier this year that the boom in oil and gas production will make the United States a net exporter of energy in 2020 for the first time in nearly 70 years, according to CNBC. Perry was scrutinized as part of a House of Democratic Representatives impeachment investigation triggered by Trump’s phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July. The president triumphs over Secretary Rick Perry: “We already have his replacement. Trump adds that he and Perry worked together to elect his replacement. The former governor of Texas is one of Trump’s oldest cabinet secretaries after being confirmed by a nonpartisan vote in the Senate in March 2017. Politico reported that Perry was summoned last week by Democrats who demanded that he deliver documents related to the appeal. Randy graduated from the American Military Academy at West Point with a bachelor’s degree in political science and Regent University School of Law with a law degree. “Rick did a fantastic job in Energy, but it was about time. Rumor has it that the Texan will be leaving Trump’s administration for months. Perry focused on increasing the country’s energy production, including oil and gas. This is two years ahead of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s forecast, which was made last year. “We already have his replacement,” the president added.
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