WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited to Thursday’s funeral service for former Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a White House official.

Former U.S. leaders, lawmakers and other dignitaries gathered at Washington’s National Cathedral to remember the powerful and divisive former vice president, who was a vocal opponent of Trump.

Guests included former Presidents Joe Biden and George W. Bush as well as former Vice President Kamala Harris and Mike Pence, who served as vice president in Trump’s first term.

Cheney, a former Wyoming congressman and secretary of defense who was a driving force behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq as vice president in 2003, died at age 84 on November 3.

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