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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-La.) is digging in on her promise to rebel against Republican leaders over a bill to boost voter ID requirements, vowing to keep up her blockade that helped grind the House to a halt unless the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is attached to major must-pass legislation.
“So yes, 1,000%, the rule will go down until you attach the SAVE America Act. I don’t care who in this chamber hates me for it,” Luna said on X on Thursday.
She fumed at fellow Republican lawmakers who have panned her strategy.
“Don’t worry. Even though some of you are making comments about me in the press, I won’t respond back with your incredibly brilliant stock trades that smell like insider trading, especially given your committees of jurisdiction. It’s okay, the American people will do that for me,” she said.
Luna’s stand centers on trying to get the House to use any point of leverage to convince the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill pushed by Trump that would require voter ID to cast a ballot and proof of citizenship for voter registration.
The bill has passed the House multiple times, and has been debated in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has repeatedly said there is not the support necessary to upend Senate rules and traditions, like the 60-vote threshold that necessitates support from Democrats, and muscle the bill through his chamber.
Both this week and last week, Luna led the charge to vote against procedural rule legislation to tee up action on bills over the SAVE America Act. Most recently, she pushed to add it as an amendment to the annual defense authorization bill.
Her stand has deeply frustrated Republican leaders, though, who have tried to address her issues. This week’s rule merged the defense bill with the SAVE America Act through a different unusual process called MIRVing.
Luna insisted that process would make it easier for the Senate to dismiss the SAVE America Act.
“If you believe in election integrity, don’t hide SAVE America in a MIRV. Put it in the bill itself. Statutory text becomes law. Everything else is only guidance that can be ignored, rewritten, or quietly discarded,” Luna said on X.
The Senate, however, can also strip out any part of a bill’s text that the House sends back and kick it back to the lower chamber.
Luna called to add the SAVE America Act to not only the defense bill, but also any bill to reauthorize the nation’s spy powers, or another party-line budget reconciliation bill.
“Add it to every must pass bill,” Luna said. “Our frontline members promised this to their voters. Let’s deliver.”
Luna’s strategy has been criticized by her Republican colleagues.
“It’s dumb to shutdown the House to pressure the Senate. Low IQ strategists,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told The Hill this week.
President Trump has also called on Republicans to stop voting down rules and unify like the Democrats do, including at a White House dinner on Tuesday.
Luna has dismissed that call.
“I think that we are exactly in lockstep with the president, and I share his same frustrations,” Luna said Monday.
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