Visit by Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen comes as a federal appeals court rules against the Trump’s administration’s efforts to block return to the US

US vice-president JD Vance arrived in Rome on Friday for meetings with the Vatican No. 2 and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, fresh off the Italian leader’s visit to the White House a day earlier, AP reports.

Meloni, who has positioned herself as a bridge between the US and Europe, received praise from president Donald Trump for her crackdown on migration during a meeting at the Oval Office on Thursday.