Kristi Noem quietly moves to her third job in Trump administration

Kristi Noem, who was dismissed from her post as Homeland Security secretary earlier this year, has taken on yet another role in the Trump administration. The State Department confirmed to CNN that her stint as special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, a hemisphere-security effort, lapsed last month. She now serves as a senior advisor to Deputy Secretary Landau and keeps working on the same portfolio. A source said she already reported to Landau while she was envoy. In a statement on X, Noem said the envoy job had been set up as a six-month appointment, according to CNN · The Independent.

President Donald Trump removed her in March, soon after she told lawmakers he had endorsed the expensive advertising campaign that featured her. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, who questioned her on the point, said Trump was angry and phoned him later that day. Trump told NBC News he had not known about the campaign and was not pleased with it. Sources told CNN that Trump called Noem within two days of the hearing to fire her, and he named Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma as her successor. Last month, Trump nonetheless thanked her publicly for her work on the Shield of the Americas.

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