PIERRE, S.D. (KELOLAND) — South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the federal Department of Homeland Security in his new administration.

That’s according to Fox News and CNN reports early Tuesday morning. The report was also confirmed by CBS.

The Republican second-term governor has repeatedly sent South Dakota National Guard troops to assist with enforcement at the Texas border and has complained that gangs are using South Dakota Indian reservations as safety zones to distribute illegal drugs brought across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Noem had supported Trump’s re-election in 2020 and vigorously campaigned for him this year. She appeared on stage with Trump at a Pennsylvania rally and attended the election-night results-watch party that Trump hosted in Florida.

The Department of Homeland Security had been a target of Republican members of Congress during the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden. The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives impeached DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in February. The Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate voted in April that the impeachment was unconstitutional.

Noem, 53, would become the second South Dakota governor during the past half-century to leave office for a federal appointment. Democratic Governor Dick Kneip stepped down in July 1978 during President Jimmy Carter’s administration for an appointment as U.S. ambassador to Singapore.

Should Noem resign, her running mate and lieutenant governor, Larry Rhoden, would succeed her as governor. Rhoden, a 65-year-old rancher and welder, was a long-time legislator who helped mentor Noem when she was a new state lawmaker two decades ago.