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Kristi Noem is Trump’s pick to run DHS. But that doesn’t mean she'd be in charge of one of its most important jobs.

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Kristi Noem , the governor of South Dakota , is set to go before a Senate committee for a confirmation hearing Friday .

If she is confirmed, she will oversee a workforce of more than 260,000 across a number of agencies.

She would be taking marching orders from incoming border czar Tom Homan and Stephen Miller , sources say.

Noem has called for so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE to be punished.

She sent South Dakota National Guard members to the border to address what she has called an immigrant “invasion” Other issues likely to come up in Noem ’s hearing are her revelation in a recently published memoir that she shot and killed her family dog.