Perry Remembers Which Department He Would Abolish

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Maria Bartiromo asked Rick Perry a potentially dangerous question for him, after his earlier fumble: In what order would he cut programs, among Social Security, Medicare, education, and a list of many other programs and policy areas that Bartiromo listed?

“Well, every one of those,” said Perry — then immediately revisiting his earlier failure to name the third department that he would eliminate. “And by the way, that was the Department of Energy I was reaching for a while ago.”

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