House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation attending Pope Francis’ funeral at the Vatican on Saturday, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced Friday.

The Pope’s funeral will take place 10 a.m. local time in St. Peter’s Square.

President Donald Trump is among the leaders arriving Friday, the last day the Argentine pope will lie in state in St. Peter’s Basilica before his coffin is sealed in the evening in preparation for his funeral.

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