Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is signaling she will vote to reopen the House floor Tuesday after a weekslong power struggle with Speaker Mike Johnson over a partisan election security bill known as the SAVE America Act.
In an X post Monday night, the Florida Republican suggested she would support a procedural rule that will finally allow the chamber to consider legislation, including a bill to fund the State Department and a measure to make daylight saving time permanent — a major priority for her home state as well as for President Donald Trump.
Luna said she would do so now “on the condition that Speaker Johnson attaches the SAVE America Act and all appropriation bills and all must-pass bills here in the House and ensures it is sent to the Senate in one bill.”
Johnson has, in fact, committed to facilitating a process this week that would attach the GOP election bill to the State Department funding package, which Luna and other Republicans believe will force the Senate into submission. Republican leaders, however, do not have the votes to pass the SAVE America Act, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune has been clear he will not facilitate a rules change to jam parts or all of the legislation through.
“If John Thune strips it out in the Senate that will be on him and the entire country should be watching what he does,” Luna wrote on X, urging his state party and constituents to “censure” or challenge him in a primary.
But while Johnson may have solved one problem for now with Luna, he still has a handful of hard-liners who refuse to vote for a rule until leadership promises them a vote to crack down on immigration. Leaders are currently discussing what legislative proposals they could put on the floor to pacify these holdouts.
It’s still not clear whether the House will be able to move on any major legislation this week.
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