Vice President Mike Pence will travel to three countries in the Middle East in late January, including Israel, where the Trump administration recently ordered the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The upcoming trip will occur weeks after its initial scheduling, which was postponed in mid-December so Pence could remain in Washington for a key vote on the GOP tax bill. Pence will now head overseas on Jan. 19, and return to Washington a week before President Trump delivers his first State of the Union address to Congress on Jan. 30.