President-elect Trump’s selection of retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security is earning praise from the leaders of a key group of House conservatives.

“He gets very high marks, from my perspective, having met with him personally in his previous life,” said North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, the newly-elected chairman of the House Freedom Caucus who instigated the final round of fighting that led to then-Speaker John Boehner’s ouster in 2015.