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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the position of secretary of the Department of Agriculture, two people familiar with the matter told CNN.

He will meet her at Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, but as always, nothing is final until Trump announces it.

Loeffler, who briefly represented Georgia in the Senate, had raised money for Trump during the 2024 race and raised several million dollars for his campaign over the summer when she hosted a debate watch party with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley. Several other Trump cabinet members — including Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Elise Stefanik — were at that party.

Loeffler is also co-chairing Trump’s inauguration, as CNN previously reported.

The agriculture job is likely to be of great importance — especially since Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has pledged to exert his influence on the agricultural sector.

Loeffler, appointed to the Senate by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp over Trump’s wishes, lost her seat in a 2021 runoff to the Democratic senator. Rafael Warnock.

Loeffler was a staunch Trump ally in Congress and said before the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, that she planned to vote against the certification of her state’s election results in support of Trump’s broader efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory to disrupt.

After the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Loeffler withdrew her objection, saying on the Senate floor: “When I arrived in Washington this morning, I fully intended to object to the certification of the electoral votes. However, the events that occurred today have forced me to reconsider, and I cannot now in good conscience object to the certification of these electors.”

In the same speech, Loeffler condemned the violence at the Capitol, calling it “abhorrent.”

Loeffler was among the witnesses who appeared before the grand jury as part of Trump’s 2020 Georgia election subversion criminal case.

Before joining the Senate, Loeffler was an executive at a financial services company in Atlanta. She was also co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream.

She was one of the wealthiest lawmakers during her short time in Congress. Her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is the CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange. When she ran for election in 2020, she announced that she and her husband were divesting individual stocks, amid sharp criticism over trades she and other lawmakers made ahead of the market downturn caused by the coronavirus.

Kemp had appointed Loeffler to fill the seat of Johnny Isakson, who left the Senate before the end of his term due to health problems. Trump, however, had urged the governor to appoint then-Rep. Doug Collins, who then challenged Loeffler for the remainder of Isakson’s term. The two Republicans sought to reinforce each other and show their loyalty to Trump, moving further to the right in a state where more moderate voters in Atlanta’s suburbs were key. Collins fell short in the November 2020 election, while Loeffler and Warnock advanced to the January 2021 runoff.

This year, Trump selected Collins to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.

CNN’s Zachary Cohen and Manu Raju contributed to this report.

This story has been updated with additional information.