Category: Federal Legislator — U.S. Representative Role: U.S. Representative from Florida’s 13th Congressional District (Pinellas County) (2023–present); Chair, Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets (2025–present); Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs Priority: P2

Who Is Anna Paulina Luna?

Anna Paulina Mayerhofer was born May 6, 1989, in Santa Ana, California. She served in the Air National Guard from 2009 to 2014 as an airfield management specialist, receiving the Air Force Achievement Medal. She graduated from the University of West Florida with a Bachelor of Science in biology in 2017 and became Director of Hispanic Engagement for Turning Point USA in 2018.

She first ran for Florida’s 13th Congressional District in 2020, losing to incumbent Democrat Charlie Crist. She won the seat in 2022 with the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, defeating Democrat Eric Lynn 53.1% to 45.1%. She was re-elected in 2024 against Democrat Whitney Fox. She is the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress from Florida.

Luna currently serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In February 2025, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer tapped her to chair the newly created Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which she has publicly described as covering JFK/RFK/MLK assassination records, the Jeffrey Epstein client list, COVID-19 origins, 9/11 records, and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Source: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “Chairman Comer Taps Luna to Lead Task Force on Declassification and Transparency,” February 2025. https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-taps-luna-to-lead-task-force-on-declassification-and-transparency/

Source: Wikipedia, “Anna Paulina Luna” (biographical particulars corroborated by Ballotpedia and Washington Post reporting cited below), accessed June 30, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Paulina_Luna

Documented Actions

1. March 2026 — House floor blockade to force SAVE America Act passage

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship (passport, birth certificate, or equivalent) to register to vote in federal elections. It passed the House in February 2026 by a 218–213 vote and stalled in the Senate under a filibuster threat.

In March 2026, Luna organized a group of House Republicans to withhold votes on procedural rules — the mechanism that allows any legislation to reach the House floor — until Senate action on the SAVE America Act was secured. Speaker Mike Johnson responded with a plan to merge the SAVE America Act with the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Luna publicly rejected the merger as insufficient, calling it “a procedural head fake” on the grounds that the Senate could still strip the citizenship-proof provisions during conference.

On the March 17, 2026 rule vote, the House rejected the combined NDAA/SAVE America Act rule 198–224. Fourteen Republicans, including Luna, joined all Democrats voting against. The other Republican no-votes were Tim Burchett (TN), Eric Burlison (MO), Eli Crane (AZ), Randy Fine (FL), Andy Harris (MD), Max Miller (OH), Chip Roy (TX), Keith Self (TX), Victoria Spartz (IN), Mike Turner (OH), Thomas Massie (KY), and Lauren Boebert (CO).

Luna’s public position: “The only way to ensure the Senate passes this is to make sure it’s in the bill text of the NDAA, meaning that my amendment(s) must be made an order.”

Source: Axios, “House conservatives revolt over stalled SAVE Act,” March 17, 2026. https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/save-act-house-convervatives-revolt-anna-paulina-luna

Source: The Hill, “House conservatives block rule advancing NDAA over SAVE America Act,” March 17, 2026. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5947441-save-america-act-stalled/

Source: Washington Examiner, “House delays votes amid Luna threats over SAVE America Act,” March 2026. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4623064/house-delays-vote-anna-paulina-luna-save-america-act-voter-id/

Source: NewsNation, “Rep. Luna blocks House floor over SAVE Act as Scalise pushes to move agenda,” March 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/paulina-luna-steve-scalise-save-act/

Documented voting-rights concerns about the SAVE America Act (attributed to specific researchers and organizations, not to this profile):

• Voting-rights researchers and state election officials have documented that an estimated 21 million U.S. citizens lack ready access to documentary proof of citizenship, and that married women who have changed their surnames are disproportionately affected because their birth certificates no longer match their voter-registration name. These concerns are the subject of ongoing litigation and are separately treated in the Patriot University voting-guide layer.

Publication-date note: Several source URLs above use year “2026” pathways corresponding to the reported March 2026 events; specific day-of-publication dates within March 2026 are captured where the outlet’s page provides them (Axios: 2026-03-17). [publication date not available] is used for outlets that did not surface an ISO date in the search result.

2. March 31, 2025 — Departure from the House Freedom Caucus

Luna announced her resignation from the House Freedom Caucus on March 31, 2025, following an internal dispute over her proposal to allow new-parent members of Congress to vote by proxy for 12 weeks after the birth of a child. In her resignation letter, Luna cited attempts by “a small group among us” to block her discharge petition.

Source: Axios, “House Freedom Caucus loses fourth member in two years as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna quits,” March 31, 2025. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/freedom-caucus-anna-paulina-luna-proxy-voting

Source: Washington Examiner, “Anna Paulina Luna leaves House Freedom Caucus after divisions on proxy voting bill,” March 31, 2025. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3364834/anna-paulina-luna-leaves-house-freedom-caucus-divisions-proxy-voting-bill/

3. April 6, 2025 — Vote-pairing agreement with Speaker Johnson on new-parent proxy voting

On April 6, 2025, Luna and Speaker Mike Johnson reached an agreement to permit absent new-parent members to use vote pairing — a procedure by which an absent member’s intended position is publicly recorded in the Congressional Record without altering the tally. This resolved Luna’s discharge-petition push short of formal proxy voting.

Source: 19th News, “Luna, Johnson reach deal in fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely,” April 2025. https://19thnews.org/2025/04/proxy-voting-new-parents-congress-fight-over/

Source: CBS News, “Luna reaches deal with Johnson after standoff over remote votes for new parents,” April 2025. [publication date not available in search result] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anna-paulina-luna-mike-johnson-proxy-voting-new-parents/

4. February 2025 — Appointment to chair the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets

Chairman James Comer appointed Luna to chair a new Task Force operating under the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, following an executive order issued by President Donald Trump directing declassification of records related to the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations. Under Luna’s chairmanship, the Task Force has convened hearings on JFK records and UAP transparency, and has publicly requested UAP-related video material from the Department of Defense.

Source: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “Chairman Comer Taps Luna to Lead Task Force on Declassification and Transparency,” February 2025. https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-taps-luna-to-lead-task-force-on-declassification-and-transparency/

Source: Paul Hastings LLP, “New Congressional Task Force on Federal Secrets Convenes First Hearing Focused on JFK Files,” 2025. [publication date not available in search result] https://www.paulhastings.com/insights/client-alerts/new-congressional-task-force-on-federal-secrets-convenes-first-hearing-focused-on-jfk-files

Source: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “Luna Opens Hearing on Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency.” [publication date not available in search result] https://oversight.house.gov/release/luna-opens-hearing-on-restoring-public-trust-through-uap-transparency/

Public Statements About the 2020 Election

Luna has publicly stated the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” and that voter fraud occurred. According to a Washington Post biographical profile published February 10, 2023, Luna stated in June 2022: “I believe that President Trump won that election, and I do believe that voter fraud occurred.” Sixty-plus court rulings, federal and state election officials, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have found no evidence of fraud sufficient to alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

Luna’s statements about the 2020 election are documented here as public statements — protected political speech — and are not characterized in this profile as criminal conduct. They are relevant context for evaluating her subsequent legislative sponsorship of documentary-proof-of-citizenship voter-registration requirements.

Source: Washington Post, “Anna Paulina Luna rose to Congress on a compelling life story. It surprised some who knew her,” February 10, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/

Biographical Reporting Context (Washington Post, February 10, 2023)

The Washington Post reported in February 2023 that Luna’s paternal grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, served as a soldier in Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht during the 1940s, based on a photograph the Post reviewed with the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Post also reported that former Whiteman Air Force Base acquaintances recalled Luna variously describing her background as Middle Eastern, Jewish, or Eastern European, and that Luna identified as “White, not of Hispanic origin” on her 2015 California driver’s license and Florida voter registration. Family members told the Post that her father was Catholic, though Luna has publicly described being raised in Messianic Judaism.

These biographical details are attributed to Washington Post reporting and are included as documented public-record biographical context. They are not asserted by this profile as independent findings, and they are not the basis for inclusion.

Source: Washington Post, “Anna Paulina Luna rose to Congress on a compelling life story. It surprised some who knew her,” February 10, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/

Democratic Malice Assessment

Democratic Malice Assessment: No designation at this time. Ideology vs. Malice determination: Luna’s documented actions on the SAVE America Act — sponsorship, floor advocacy, and procedural leverage against unrelated House business — were pursued through legitimate legislative channels. Restricting voter-registration eligibility to those able to produce documentary proof of citizenship is a policy position that voting-rights advocates and election officials strongly contest on disenfranchisement grounds, but it was advanced by Luna through open floor debate, publicly held votes, and public statements — not through covert or extra-institutional means. The Democratic Malice Assessment framework evaluates subversion of democratic mechanisms themselves, not policy disagreement, and therefore Luna does not currently receive a DMS score under the published framework. Framework note: This profile separately records Luna’s public statement that the 2020 election was “stolen” as documented public speech. Repeating that characterization from a sitting Member of Congress erodes public confidence in verified election results, but is legally protected political speech. If additional evidence emerges of coordination with any specific effort to overturn a certified election result — beyond public statements — this profile would be revisited. Framework disclosure: This Democratic Malice Assessment applies a published analytical framework to documented public actions by public officials. All factual predicates are cited to primary or secondary sources. This assessment is subject to update as new evidence emerges or prior evidence is corrected.

Accountability Status

Current status: Serving as U.S. Representative (R-FL-13); Chair, Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets; Member, House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Foreign Affairs Legal exposure: None identified Election status: Next general election November 3, 2026 (Florida’s 13th Congressional District, two-year term)

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Sources

1. Axios, “House conservatives revolt over stalled SAVE Act,” March 17, 2026. https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/save-act-house-convervatives-revolt-anna-paulina-luna
2. The Hill, “House conservatives block rule advancing NDAA over SAVE America Act,” March 17, 2026. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5947441-save-america-act-stalled/
3. The Hill, “Johnson announces gambit to attach SAVE America Act to must-pass defense bill,” March 2026. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5946645-speaker-johnson-save-america-ndaa/
4. Washington Examiner, “House delays votes amid Luna threats over SAVE America Act,” March 2026. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4623064/house-delays-vote-anna-paulina-luna-save-america-act-voter-id/
5. NewsNation, “Rep. Luna blocks House floor over SAVE Act as Scalise pushes to move agenda,” March 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/paulina-luna-steve-scalise-save-act/
6. Fox News, “House GOP merges SAVE Act with defense bill as conservative holdouts dig in,” March 2026. https://noticias.foxnews.com/politics/house-gops-save-act-rescue-plan-hits-resistance-from-conservative-holdouts
7. CBS News, “House GOP agenda stalls over holdouts’ insistence on SAVE America Act,” March 2026. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-gop-agenda-stalls-save-america-act/
8. Axios, “House Freedom Caucus loses fourth member in two years as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna quits,” March 31, 2025. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/freedom-caucus-anna-paulina-luna-proxy-voting
9. Washington Examiner, “Anna Paulina Luna leaves House Freedom Caucus after divisions on proxy voting bill,” March 31, 2025. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3364834/anna-paulina-luna-leaves-house-freedom-caucus-divisions-proxy-voting-bill/
10. 19th News, “Luna, Johnson reach deal in fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely,” April 2025. https://19thnews.org/2025/04/proxy-voting-new-parents-congress-fight-over/
11. CBS News, “Luna reaches deal with Johnson after standoff over remote votes for new parents,” April 2025. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anna-paulina-luna-mike-johnson-proxy-voting-new-parents/
12. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “Chairman Comer Taps Luna to Lead Task Force on Declassification and Transparency,” February 2025. https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-taps-luna-to-lead-task-force-on-declassification-and-transparency/
13. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “Luna Opens Hearing on Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency,” 2025. https://oversight.house.gov/release/luna-opens-hearing-on-restoring-public-trust-through-uap-transparency/
14. Washington Post, “Anna Paulina Luna rose to Congress on a compelling life story. It surprised some who knew her,” February 10, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/
15. Ballotpedia, “Florida’s 13th Congressional District election, 2024,” accessed June 30, 2026. https://ballotpedia.org/Florida’s_13th_Congressional_District_election,_2024
16. Ballotpedia, “Anna Paulina Luna,” accessed June 30, 2026. https://ballotpedia.org/Anna_Paulina_Luna
17. Wikipedia, “Anna Paulina Luna,” accessed June 30, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Paulina_Luna

Last Updated: June 30, 2026 Profile Status: Draft — pending review