Kristi Noem is no longer the Special Envoy to the Shield of Americas, the State Department said on Thursday.
Noem will serve as a senior advisor to Deputy Secretary Landau.
CBS News reported:
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is no longer serving as the Trump administration’s special envoy for the Shield of the Americas initiative, a State Department official said Thursday, though she remains involved in the administration’s efforts to coordinate security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere.
“Kristi Noem’s envoy status expired last month and she is no longer in the role,” a State Department official told CBS News Thursday. “She is now a senior advisor to Deputy Secretary Landau and continues to work on the Shield of the Americas portfolio.”
The Shield of the Americas is a coalition made up of the United States and several Caribbean and Latin American countries established by the Trump administration earlier this year to cooperate on economic matters, anti-cartel enforcement and other issues.
Noem’s envoy designation expired just before the United Nations General Assembly last month in New York, where she continued participating in diplomatic meetings connected to the initiative.
President Trump fired Kristi Noem as DHS Chief in March and announced then-Senator Markwayne Mullin as her replacement.
At the time of her firing, NBC reported that Trump was unhappy with Noem about her decision to approve a $200 million limited-bid ad campaign.
Separately, NBC News reported earlier Thursday morning that Trump was not happy with Kristi Noem’s performance during the Congressional hearings.
