With Donald Trump on track to lock up the Republican nomination, speculation has naturally turned to who might populate his future administration. Most of the media’s focus has thus far been on gaming out whom Trump could select as his running mate, from potential veep picks like Senator Tim Scott and Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to Governor Kristi Noem and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. But no matter whom Trump chooses, it’s unclear how much influence that person might actually have; after all, Trump values personal relationships and his family more than someone’s position in a West Wing org chart.

Which is why it’s potentially more consequential that Republicans are now buzzing about the possibility of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, serving as secretary of state in Trump’s second term. According to two sources, prominent Republicans are speculating that Kushner is in the running to take charge at Foggy Bottom if Trump wins in November. One source briefed on the conversations said Republican senators have privately asked Kushner to head up the agency. According to the source, Kushner has said he is “focused on his family and his business,” and would wait until late summer to consider serving as the nation’s top diplomat.

Kushner declined to comment. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair’s request for comment.

If Trump were to nominate Kushner to be his secretary of state, it would present risks and opportunities for the administration, not to mention the country. Kushner’s financial relationships in the Middle East—especially with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which committed $2 billion to his private equity firm—would raise a host of ethical issues and surely be probed by Congress during a confirmation hearing. At the same time, many senators might prefer Kushner to MAGA hard-liners like General Mike Flynn or Richard Grenell, who could stoke Trump’s impulses to blow up America’s long-standing alliances like NATO. “It would show Trump is not purely on a revenge tour,” one of the sources said.

Kushner’s experience in Middle East diplomacy could also be viewed as a positive by lawmakers given the current war between Israel and Hamas. Before leaving the White House, Kushner helped broker the Abraham Accords between Israel and both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. US-led normalization talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia continued into the Biden administration, but were reportedly put on the back burner shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack. According to the second source, Kushner has been speaking with Arab leaders to help convince Hamas to release the more than 100 hostages still being held in Gaza. In December, Axios reported that Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, had organized a meeting between bipartisan business leaders and the Qatari prime minister.