Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is escalating the fight to advance a sweeping election integrity bill, known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, through Congress before November’s midterm elections.
Luna, a Trump ally, is vowing to bring the House floor to a halt if the Senate does not take up legislation requiring proof of citizenship in order to vote in federal elections before the House lawmakers return to Washington the first week of February. The House passed the Trump-endorsed bill in April 2025, but the legislation has since stalled in the Senate.
“If the Senate does not pass the SAVE Act and/or schedule a date for a vote by the time we return, I have enough votes from other members to shut down the floor of the House,” Luna wrote Friday in a post to X.
“We are not going to play games—especially given that half of the Republicans in both the House and Senate are concerned about their reelection and want the floor open for their messaging bills,” the congresswoman added.
It is unclear which lawmakers would join Luna’s push to shut down the House floor, but many House Republicans have voiced frustration with the Senate for declining to consider the SAVE Act for the past nine months.
Luna has argued that her colleagues’ failure to vote on the SAVE Act would betray Trump’s campaign promise to crack down on noncitizen voting.
“They are not allowed to hide behind the president and his agenda while knifing the American people in the back,” Luna wrote in her X post. “They need legislation for their elections, so they MUST pass the SAVE Act.”
“Election integrity is the most important issue in this country for the future of our nation,” the Florida Republican continued.
President Donald Trump has long called for requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Most Republicans have argued the SAVE Act is common-sense legislation to safeguard election integrity. The legislation would also order states to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.
When the House passed the SAVE Act in April 2025, four Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Ed Case of Hawaii — bucked party leadership to support the measure.
Most Democratic lawmakers, however, have characterized the SAVE Act as a “voter suppression” bill that would disenfranchise Americans who do not have easy access to citizenship documents, such as a U.S. passport or birth certificate.
Due to widespread opposition among Democrats, the SAVE Act would likely face a steep climb to clearing the Senate’s 60-vote legislative filibuster. The election integrity bill would need seven Democratic votes in the scenario every GOP senator is present and voting in favor of the measure.
However, it is unclear whether all 53 Senate Republicans support the SAVE Act. The legislation, led by Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, has 35 Republican cosponsors.
Three members of Senate Republican leadership — Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Tim Scott of South Carolina and James Lankford of Oklahoma — are cosponsors of the SAVE Act.
However, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Majority Whip John Barrasso and Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito have yet to sign on to the bill.
Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley quickly backtracked after a leaked letter sent to a constituent on Tuesday said the senator opposed efforts by Congress to federalize elections.
Some proponents of the SAVE Act interpreted Grassley’s letter to indicate his opposition to the election integrity legislation. However, Grassley clarified that he was not opposed to the SAVE Act in a post on X on Wednesday, writing, “Dont believe everything u read on the internet.”
As of Friday morning, Grassley is not a cosponsor of the SAVE Act.
A spokesperson for Luna did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to the White House before publication.
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