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Pope Francis and US presidents: A look back at his legacy with the nation’s leaders

U.S. presidents mourned the death of Pope Francis, who served as the leader of the Catholic Church for 12 years, on Monday following the Vatican’s announcement of the pope’s passing.
«Rest in Peace Pope Francis!» President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Monday. «May God Bless him and all who loved him!»
The College of Cardinals elected Pope Francis, 88, to serve as the pope following Pope Benedict XVI in March 2013. His election marked the first time a non-European served as pope in more than 1,000 years. Pope Francis, born with the name Jorge Mario Bergoglio, originally hailed from Argentina.
Pope Francis, who was hospitalized in February due to complications stemming from bronchitis and pneumonia, died Monday at the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.
Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, met with Pope Francis on Sunday in one of the reception rooms of the Vatican hotel just hours before the pope’s death. Vance acknowledged the visit in a post on X Monday while expressing his condolences to Christians who loved the pope, and shared a link to the transcript of one of the pope’s 2020 homilies.
POPE FRANCIS DEAD AT 88, VATICAN SAYS
Pope Francis receives U.S. Vice President JD Vance, left, before bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
«My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him. I was happy to see him yesterday, though he was obviously very ill,» Vance said in a post on X on Monday. «But I’ll always remember him for the below homily he gave in the very early days of COVID. It was really quite beautiful. May God rest his soul.»
Trump also signed an executive order Monday ordering all U.S. flags be flown at half-staff on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels to remember Francis. The order also applies to all U.S. embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
Here’s a look at Pope Francis’ legacy with other U.S. leaders:
Barack Obama
Pope Francis met with former President Barack Obama at the Vatican in March 2014. The two met again in September of the following year during Pope Francis’ visit to the White House, where the pope delivered a statement urging action on climate change. Following his visit to the White House, Francis also visited New York City and Philadelphia.
Obama issued a statement Monday morning lauding the pope for his leadership.
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President Barack Obama and Pope Francis walk down the Colonnade before meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Sept. 23, 2015.
«In his humility and his gestures at once simple and profound – embracing the sick, ministering to the homeless, washing the feet of young prisoners – he shook us out of our complacency and reminded us that we are all bound by moral obligations to God and one another,» Obama said in a post on X Monday morning.
«Today, Michelle and I mourn with everyone around the world – Catholic and non-Catholic alike – who drew strength and inspiration from the Pope’s example,» Obama said. «May we continue to heed his call to ‘never remain on the sidelines of this march of living hope.’»
Donald Trump
Trump met with Pope Francis in 2017 during a trip to the Vatican, and told reporters later that they had a «fantastic meeting.» However, the two remained at odds with one another over Trump’s border policies for the last decade.
«A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,» Pope Francis said in February 2016 amid Trump’s push on the campaign trail to build a border wall and crack down on illegal immigration.

Pope Francis meets President Donald Trump in the Private Library of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on May 24, 2017. (Vatican/Pool/Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori via Getty Images)
In response, Trump said: «For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful.»
Pope Francis routinely issued similar statements, and in February penned a letter to U.S. Catholic bishops and voiced concern about the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.
«The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness,» Pope Francis said in the letter.
Joe Biden
Former President Joe Biden, the second Catholic U.S. president, visited the Vatican in October 2021, where he and Pope Francis met to discuss topics including climate change and advocacy for the poor, according to a readout of the meeting.
Biden had previously met Pope Francis on several other occasions, including during the pope’s visit to the U.S. in 2015.
Biden also met with Pope Francis in June at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Apulia, Italy, where the two discussed the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, according to a readout of the meeting.
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Pope Francis meets President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the Apostolic Palace on Oct. 29, 2021 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
Biden, who awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January, described him as a «consequential» leader on Monday who was a «Pope for everyone.»
«He was unlike any who came before him,» Biden said in a post on X Monday morning. «Pope Francis will be remembered as one of the most consequential leaders of our time and I am better for having known him. For decades, he served the most vulnerable across Argentina and his mission of serving the poor never ceased. As Pope, he was a loving pastor and challenging teacher who reached out to different faiths.»
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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Trump gives Hamas ‘three to four days’ to accept plan or meet a ‘a very sad end’

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the Hamas terrorist network has up to four days to accept his 20-point peace plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip or face «a very sad end.»
«We’re going to do about 3 or 4 days. We’ll see how it is,» he told reporters. «Now, all of the Arab countries are signed up. The Muslim countries all signed up. Israel’s all signed up.
«And Hamas is either going to be doing it or not. And if it’s not, it’s going to be a very sad end,» he added.
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Hamas fighters stand in formation as Palestinians gather to watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Feb. 8, 2025. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accepted a plan that would ultimately end military operations in Gaza, disarm Hamas, secure the return of all 46 hostages and lay out a path to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
Fox News confirmed on Monday that top officials from Qatar and Egypt met with Hamas negotiators and shared the U.S.-backed plan.
The Hamas negotiators confirmed they would review it «in good faith and provide a response,» an official briefed on the talks said.
The plan has been widely championed by leaders across the Middle East, Europe and parts of Asia.
A joint statement issued by Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt not only «welcomed» Trump’s proposal to end the war and rebuild Gaza, but also highlighted his commitment to addressing Israel’s security concerns, including barring the forced displacement of Palestinians and halting annexation of the West Bank.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
«The ministers affirm their readiness to engage positively and constructively with the United States and the parties toward finalizing the agreement and ensuring its implementation, in a manner that ensures peace, security, and stability for the peoples of the region,» the joint statement said.
Similarly, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron — both of whom have said they now recognize the «State of Palestine» despite Washington’s opposition to the move — championed Trump’s peace plan in separate statements.
The 20-point proposal was met with mixed reviews in Israel, where hard-right officials within Netanyahu’s own coalition fiercely rejected the prime minister’s acceptance of the plan.
Netanyahu’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, renewed questions over the fate of the prime minister’s coalition after he condemned the agreement on Tuesday as a «resounding diplomatic failure» and said it amounted to «a closing of eyes and turning our backs on all the lessons of Oct. 7.»

Palestinians run for cover during an Israeli airstrike on a high-rise building in Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, after the Israeli army issued a prior warning. (Yousef Al Zanoun/AP Photo)
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In contrast, fierce critics of Netanyahu, including Opposition leader Yair Lapid, said he is «convinced that amidst the tangle of interests and the pressing timeline dictated by the hostages’ situation, what President Trump presented yesterday is the only plan with feasibility.»
Blue and White Party leader, Benny Gantz, also confirmed that his party «would not allow petty politics to sabotage the plan.»
Fox News’ Trey Yingst contributed to this report.
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GOP accuses Dems of risking shutdown to restore ‘illegal immigrant healthcare’

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As Congress barrels toward Tuesday’s midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown, Republicans are blasting Democrats for prioritizing «free healthcare for illegal aliens» over paying U.S. troops, who would miss paychecks if the government closes.
Both Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., have accused Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of trying to reinstate taxpayer-funded medical benefits for illegal immigrants through congressional Democrats’ continuing resolution (CR), a charge Democrats dispute.
Congressional Democrats’ main demand has been an extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits, but among their wishlist is a push to repeal the healthcare title of President Donald Trump’s signature piece of legislation.
Republicans aimed to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse from Medicaid, reforms which included limiting eligibility and penalizing states who extended healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, right, accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, of prioritizing «free healthcare for illegal aliens» over paying U.S. troops. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
«They want to have illegal aliens come into our country and get massive healthcare at the cost to everybody else, and we don’t have it. And that’s, I would say, the number one reason that they want to strike is to get illegal immigrants’ healthcare,» Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, as he said Republicans are not responsible for the looming government shutdown.
«Democrats are about to shut down the government because they demand we fund healthcare for illegal aliens,» Vice President JD Vance posted on X last week. Johnson added on Sunday that Schumer wants to «reinstate free healthcare for illegal aliens paid by American taxpayers.»
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Schumer and congressional Democrats, however, have labeled the issue the «Republican healthcare crisis,» and placed the onus of a government shutdown on Trump and the GOP. The top Senate Democrat rejected Republican’s claims that they were trying to allow illegal immigrants onto federal health care rolls ahead of the vote to fund the government.
«They say that undocumented people are going to get these credits,» Schumer said. «That is absolutely false. That is one of the big lies that they tell.»
Republicans have seized on Democrats’ efforts to roll back Medicaid reform included in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which narrowly passed through Congress earlier this year.

President Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of top U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Virginia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Last week on Truth Social, Trump stated, «Democrats want Illegal Aliens, many of them VIOLENT CRIMINALS, to receive FREE Healthcare.»
While many of the provisions they sought to include in Trump’s colossal bill were nixed by Senate rules, one provision included in the legislation limited Medicaid eligibility to U.S. citizens and other certain lawful permanent residents, according to the American Medical Association.
That provision simultaneously barred «previously eligible legal immigrants such as refugees, individuals granted asylum, and certain abused spouses and children,» and is set to take effect on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Taxpayer-funded Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants has long been prohibited, except for treatment of emergency medical conditions.
The OBBBA made certain changes to the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), which dictates how much the federal government matches states’ funding for Medicaid.

As lawmakers debate a government funding extension, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., awaits a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Obamacare, meanwhile, allowed for states to expand their Medicaid populations with the federal government matching 90% of the costs of that expanded population. States that took that expansion and also provide healthcare funding for illegal immigrants are due to receive less federal funding under OBBBA, with that cost-sharing margin going from 90% to 80%.
And while illegal immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid and Medicare, Emergency Medicaid reimbursements allow hospitals to recoup the cost of emergency care for people who would be eligible for Medicaid if they had legal status. The OBBBA limits those federal dollars, however, to just allow for the state’s regular FMAP share.
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While ACA subsidies aren’t set to expire until the end of this year, Democrats warned that insurers were set to send out new guidance and rates on Wednesday. They charged that on average, premium costs for people enrolled on Obamacare that use the credits would go up by an average of 114%.
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