Anna Paulina Luna Threatens To Bring Congress To Halt If Senate Does Not Pass Election Integrity Bill

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.”