“The third agency of government I would, I would do away with, the Education, the uh, Commerce… and let’s see… I can’t. The third one, I can’t. Sorry. Oops.” Later that night, Perry would extinguish the suspense that had surely been killing the audience by revealing that the third doomed agency was the Department of Energy. Although he never got a chance to eliminate that department as president, he did the next best thing, serving as energy secretary under Donald J. Trump.XV
