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President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be his Energy secretary, three sources close to the transition say.

Perry proposed eliminating the Energy Department when he was a 2012 presidential candidate, and infamously forgot the agency's name on the debate stage when outlining the parts of the federal government he wanted to eliminate. But conservatives favored Perry for the secretary post, viewing him as someone with management experience who would be willing to question the agency's status quo.

Just last year, as a rival for the 2016 Republican nomination, Perry attacked Trump as a "cancer on conservatism" and a "toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued." But he reversed course and backed Trump in May.

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