Kristi Noem no longer serving as Trump envoy to Shield of the Americas

Key points

• Kristi Noem's envoy status expired last month, a State Department official said Thursday.
• She remains a senior advisor to Deputy Secretary Landau on the Shield of the Americas.
• Noem was appointed in March after being removed as homeland security secretary.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is no longer the Trump administration's special envoy for the Shield of the Americas initiative, a State Department official said Thursday. The official told CBS News that Noem's envoy status expired last month and she is no longer in the role.

Noem remains involved in the administration's efforts to coordinate security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere. The official said she is now a senior advisor to Deputy Secretary Landau and continues to work on the Shield of the Americas portfolio.

What the initiative involves

The Shield of the Americas is a coalition of the United States and several Caribbean and Latin American countries. It was established by the Trump administration earlier this year to cooperate on economic matters, anti-cartel enforcement and other issues.

I want to thank Kristi Noem for doing a really terrific job

— President Trump

Noem's activities in the role

Noem's envoy designation expired just before the United Nations General Assembly last month in New York. She continued participating in diplomatic meetings connected to the initiative there.

On Sept. 22, she met with Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, whose government publicly identified her as the special envoy. She also attended a gathering of Shield of the Americas leaders hosted by President Trump, who publicly acknowledged her work.

Noem was appointed special envoy in March after she was removed as homeland security secretary amid scrutiny of her management of the department and the influence of her adviser, Corey Lewandowski. Her public activities in the envoy role appear to have been limited.