Former President Joe Biden, who maintained a personal and working relationship with Pope Francis that goes back to the visit to the late Pontiff to the United States in 2015, will attack The papal funeral Saturday in the city of the Vatican, the Biden office confirmed on Friday.
Former first lady Jill Biden will also travel with her husband to Italy for the funeral.
Francis began his papacy in 2013 during the administration of Obama, but former President Barack Obama does not plan to attend, according to a spokesman.
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President Trump and the first lady Melania Trump left Friday morning so that Rome attended the funeral.
The bipartisan delegations of Chamber legislators and the Senate also go to Rome to present their respects.
Chamber members who attribute the funeral include Republican representatives Steve Scalise or Louisiana, French Hill or Arkansas, Ann Wagner or Missouri, John Joyce or Pennsylvania, Pete Stauber of Minnesota and Scott Fitzgerald or Wisconsin, as well as Democratic representatives. Nancy Pelosi or California, Brendan Boyle or Pennsylvania and Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen of New York.
The senators who bind to them are the Republicans Susan Collins de Maine, Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Mike Rounds of Dakota del Sur, in addition to the Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois and Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
Pope Francis, who had fought against health problems for months, He died Monday at the age of 88 After a stroke.
He is the leg I lie in the state In the Basilica of San Pedro since Wednesday, where tens of thousands or murters have come to lend their final respect.
Among the heads of state who will attend the funeral will be Ukrainian President Volodyyr Zenskyy, French president Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer and the Argentine Javier Milei.
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Ed O’Keefe
