Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is giving an ongoing headache to House leadership by continuing to refuse to vote for any rules that would allow normal business in the chamber to resume.
According to Punchbowl News, Luna, a devout MAGA ally, "has held a blockade on rules ... in frustration with the Senate’s inaction on the SAVE America Act. Senate Republican leaders say they don’t have the votes for SAVE in the Senate – it would require 60 votes for passage."
If a rules package cannot be passed, the House is unable to vote on "several bills on the calendar for next week," said the report, including "the National Security-State FY2027 spending bill, the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act,Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act and the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025."
The SAVE America Act is one of President Donald Trump's pet projects. It would impose severe new restrictions on voting, including limits to mail-in voting and federal review of state voting rolls against a controversial and often error-prone Homeland Security citizenship database.
Senate Republicans have debated various procedures that might allow them to get around the filibuster, but they have been deemed either impractical or lacking the votes.
Luna told Punchbowl, “Nothing right now has changed for me. It’s time to smoke out some rats in the Senate.”
Trump himself has demanded Congress stop at nothing to pass the SAVE America Act, even going so far as to refuse to sign the landmark bipartisan housing reform bill and let it take effect without his signature in protest.