Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has consistently opposed additional U.S. aid to Ukraine, citing concerns about accountability, transparency, and prioritizing domestic issues over foreign assistance (CNN, Fox Business).
Luna has advocated for auditing existing U.S. support to Ukraine and criticized the scale of current aid, arguing it could have funded significant domestic programs and expressing skepticism after a visit with Ukrainian officials (CNN, Fox Business).
She has pushed back against packages that send aid to both Ukraine and entities connected to the Israel-Hamas conflict, and voiced opposition to U.S. funding for the Palestinian Authority due to links with Hamas (CNN, The Free Press).
Luna has criticized the UN Human Rights Council for what she describes as anti-Israel bias and ignoring abuses by countries like China, introducing legislation to block U.S. funding until the UN condemns Hamas (The Free Press).
She supports "America First" policies such as reciprocal tariffs to boost U.S. manufacturing and expressed openness to U.S. territorial expansion in Greenland as a strategic interest (Fox News).
Luna's strong opposition to Ukraine funding has drawn criticism from some constituents and commentators, who argue her stance undermines U.S. leadership and support for allies (Tampa Bay Times).
December 2024: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Cited Ukraine Aid As Reason For Opposing CR According to NBC - 8 WFLA, "In a different post, she listed one of the reasons was the CR contained billions for Ukraine. 'It was so bad. There was so much backlash, not just in Pinellas County, but across the country against it,' Luna said." [NBC - 8 WFLA, 12/20/24]
Anna Paulina Luna Cited Ukraine Funding In Opposition To Continuing Resolution In 2024 According to NBC - 8 WFLA, "En una publicación diferente, enumeró una de las razones por las que la Resolución Continua (CR) contenía miles de millones para Ucrania. 'Fue muy malo. Hubo mucha reacción negativa, no solo en el condado Pinellas, sino en todo el país', dijo Luna." [NBC - 8 WFLA: Web Edition Articles (Florida), 12/20/24]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Supported Auditing Ukraine Aid and Reducing U.S. Assistance In an interview with Fox Business, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said, "A lot of the money that we have given to support Ukraine, we're not auditing. We don't know where it's going. So I think that we do need to have this discussion. We need to sit down and we need to evaluate exactly where we're putting this money." Also, she said, "I would say that, that's my personal perspective, I think that we have gone above and beyond. And, right now, I'm more concerned about the American people and ensuring that we're taking care of here at home." [Interview - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna with Fox Business (Neil Cavuto), 1/10/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Called For Auditing Ukraine Aid In an interview with CAVUTO, Anna Paulina Luna said, "A lot of the money that we have given to support Ukraine, we're not auditing. We don't know where it's going. So I think we do need to have this discussion. We need to sit down and we need to evaluate exactly where we're putting this money." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CAVUTO, 1/10/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Supported Cutting Ukraine Aid In an interview with CAVUTO, Anna Paulina Luna said, "Absolutely. And I would say that, that's my personal perspective, I think that we have gone above and beyond. And, right now, I'm more concerned about the American people and ensuring that we're taking care of here at home." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CAVUTO, 1/10/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Supported Cutting Back U.S. Funding To Ukraine In an interview with Fox Business, Anna Paulina Luna said, "Absolutely. And I would say that, that's my personal perspective, I think that we have gone above and beyond. And, right now, I'm more concerned about the American people and ensuring that we're taking care of here at home." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with Fox Business, 1/10/23]
November 2023: Anna Paulina Luna Introduced Bill To Block UN Funding Until Condemnation Of Hamas Attack According to The Free Press (Tampa, Florida), "Luna, a Clearwater Republican, introduced a bill that would block all funding to the United Nations Human Rights Council until the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly adopt a resolution condemning Hamas for the vicious Oct. 7 terror attacks against Israel." [Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 11/6/23]
February 2024: Anna Paulina Luna Rejected Support For $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package According to The Free Press, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) said, 'Hell would have to freeze over' before she supports the foreign aid package. [Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 2/16/24]
February 2024: Anna Paulina Luna Opposed Aid To Palestinian Authority Due To Hamas Ties According to The Free Press, Luna said, 'I support giving aid to our allies; however, when you're saying that you want to give humanitarian aid to Gaza or the Palestinian Authority, people have to realize that Hamas is a political party within the Palestinian Authority. So you're essentially funding both sides of that war.' [Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 2/16/24]
2024: Letter Writer Terrence S. Callahan Criticized Anna Paulina Luna for Opposing Ukraine Funding According to a letter to the editor published in Tampa Bay Times, "I receive what I consider junk mail from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who constantly states she is 'fighting' for me. I would like her to stop 'fighting' for me and start governing for me. Luna and her do-nothing congressional cronies are blocking the funding of Ukraine. This is probably one of the most critical times in our nation's history." [Letter to the Editor - Tampa Bay Times, 3/25/24]
2024: Letter Writer Terrence S. Callahan Accused Anna Paulina Luna of Ineffectiveness in Congress According to a letter to the editor published in Tampa Bay Times, "The current Republican-led Congress is perhaps the most ineffective in our nation's history. The world is watching. We can not call ourselves an 'exceptional country' and not stand alongside our allies as we have done for centuries. Those Republicans, including Luna, should stop fighting and start governing." [Letter to the Editor - Tampa Bay Times, 3/25/24]
April 2024: Luna Stated Opposition To Ukraine Aid Package According to CNN News Central, 'With us now is Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida. Congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. Let's just do a bit of a whip count here, if we can, as things stand this morning, how will you vote on a to Ukraine? REP. ANNA PAULINA LUNA (R-FL): As of right now, I'm not going to be voting for' [CNN News Central, 4/18/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Opposed House Rule For Ukraine Aid Package In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "As of right now, I'm not going to be voting for the rule. [...] there's actually funding of both sides of what's happening in Israel, as well as with Hamas, and I simply can't get behind that." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN, 4/18/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Expressed Opposition To Funding For Ukraine Military Aid In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I went to actually Poland and I met with the Ukrainian parliament. And the reason why I've been so vocal, not only about actually ensuring that we know where that money is going, but really I think being hesitant about sending more is because [...] I was told by -- in a bipartisan delegation by the Ukrainian parliament speaker that they were trying to create a mercenary army with the equipment that we're giving them after Russia leaves Crimea, and I don't think that we should be funding that either." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN, 4/18/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Claimed Ukraine Chose Not To Join NATO In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "Remember, Ukraine chose to not join NATO. They also, in addition to that, had decisions that they made early on that would basically enable them to support what we're doing here in the United States as far as fighting that and they chose not to. So, again, it is not our fight to fight." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN, 4/18/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Criticized Scale Of U.S. Ukraine Aid In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "We've given them a ton of aid. We've given them so much aid that we could have funded a second Marine Corps. [...] let's take student loans, for example, and yet we're funding a foreign government. I simply don't agree with that." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN, 4/18/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Stated Spending For Ukraine Aid Is Not Sustainable In an interview with Fox Business, Anna Paulina Luna said, "And when you have an open border, when you have a war in Israel where our administration is not backing our ally, and then you're seeing the financial drain on this country with a request for more and more funding for Ukraine, I just don't think that that's sustainable." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with Fox Business (Neil Cavuto), 4/16/24]
April 2024: Luna Voiced Concern Over Continued U.S. Funding For Ukraine And Open Borders According to CQ Transcriptions, Luna said, "And when you have an open border, when you have a war in Israel where our administration is not backing our ally, and then you're seeing the financial drain on this country with a request for more and more funding for Ukraine, I just don't think that that's sustainable." [CQ Transcriptions, 4/16/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Opposed Ukraine Aid Rule and Package Funding Both Sides in Israel-Hamas Conflict In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "As of right now, I'm not going to be voting for the rule. [...] within this package that they're trying to bring to the floor, there's actually funding of both sides of what's happening in Israel, as well as with Hamas, and I simply can't get behind that." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN News Central, 4/18/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Expressed Skepticism Toward Additional Ukraine Aid After Visit to Poland and Meeting with Ukrainian Parliament In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I went to actually Poland and I met with the Ukrainian parliament. And the reason why I've been so vocal, not only about actually ensuring that we know where that money is going, but really I think being hesitant about sending more is because of the fact that I was told by -- in a bipartisan delegation by the Ukrainian parliament speaker that they were trying to create a mercenary army with the equipment that we're giving them after Russia leaves Crimea, and I don't think that we should be funding that either." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN News Central, 4/18/24]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Opposed Further Ukraine Funding and Cited Lack of Accountability In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "currently right now with Ukraine, while we are sending money over there, there is no accountability. [...] Ukraine chose to not join NATO. [...] it is not our fight to fight. We've given them a ton of aid. We've given them so much aid that we could have funded a second Marine Corps. [...] I simply don't agree with that." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN News Central, 4/18/24]
March 2025: Luna Supported U.S. Expansion To Greenland According to Fox News, JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, Anna Paulina Luna stated, "I would actually argue, from a strategic standpoint, Jesse, that that would actually be a great location for us, not to mention, from what I gather, the people of Greenland are very much supportive of becoming potentially a U.S. territory. And so I'm supportive of it." [Fox News JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, 3/28/25]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Warned U.S. Focus Should Shift To China, Not The Middle East According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna wrote, "Make no mistake if we take China's word for it, the main challenge ahead of us is coming from Asia," and warned, "Chinese government would love to see us bankrupt, militarily vulnerable, wasting our tax dollars, and draining our weapons in Middle Eastern or Eastern European backwaters." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
March 2025: Luna Advocated For America First And Pro-American Ideology In Expansion According to Fox News, JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, Anna Paulina Luna said, "Why would we not want to expand our message and really have people that are for the America First and pro-American ideology?" [Fox News JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, 3/28/25]
2025: Anna Paulina Luna Expressed Support for U.S. Territorial Expansion in Greenland In an interview with FOX News host Jesse Watters, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said, "I'm supportive of it. Why would we not want to expand our message and really have people that are for the America First and pro-American ideology?" in reference to the U.S. potentially making Greenland a territory. [Interview - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna with FOX News' Jesse Watters Primetime, 3/28/25]
2025: Anna Paulina Luna Advocated for Reciprocal Tariffs to Boost American Manufacturing In an interview with FOX News host Jesse Watters, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said, "when the President talks about reciprocal tariffs, it's important for people to realize that's actually a very good negotiating tool as well. [...] it actually will help, in the long run, to not just bring costs down for the American people, but also manufacturing back to the United States. I've actually been a huge advocate for the President's perspective on this idea." [Interview - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna with FOX News' Jesse Watters Primetime, 3/28/25]
2025: Anna Paulina Luna Endorsed Use Of Reciprocal Tariffs To Support U.S. Manufacturing In an interview with FOX News, Anna Paulina Luna said, "when the President talks about reciprocal tariffs, it's important for people to realize that's actually a very good negotiating tool as well. [...] it actually will help, in the long run, to not just bring costs down for the American people, but also manufacturing back to the United States. I've actually been a huge advocate for the President's perspective on this idea." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with FOX News (Jesse Watters Primetime), 3/28/25]
April 2025: Luna Announced Upcoming Meeting With El Salvador President Bukele According to NBC - 8 WFLA: Web Edition Articles (Florida), "U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) will meet with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador next month, she announced Tuesday." [NBC - 8 WFLA: Web Edition Articles (Florida), 4/22/25]
March 2025: Luna Argued For Reciprocal Tariffs And Buy American Policies According to Fox News, JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, Anna Paulina Luna said, "When the President talks about reciprocal tariffs, it's important for people to realize that's actually a very good negotiating tool as well. [...] And so it actually will help, in the long run, to not just bring costs down for the American people, but also manufacturing back to the United States. I've actually been a huge advocate for the President's perspective on this idea." [Fox News JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, 3/28/25]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Called For Auditing U.S. Aid To Ukraine In an interview with Fox Business, Anna Paulina Luna said, "A lot of the money that we have given to support Ukraine, we're not auditing. We don't know where it's going. So I think that we do need to have this discussion. We need to sit down and we need to evaluate exactly where we're putting this money." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with Fox Business, 1/10/23]
November 2023: Anna Paulina Luna Criticized UN Human Rights Council For Anti-Israel Bias According to The Free Press (Tampa, Florida), "Luna noted that the UN Human Rights Council has a 'long history' of anti-Semitic actions and disproportionately targeting Israel. But the agency also 'consistently turns a blind eye' to human rights abuses committed by numerous other countries, Florida Daily noted." [Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 11/6/23]
Anna Paulina Luna Quoted On UN Human Rights Council And Human Rights Advocacy In 2023 According to The Free Press (Tampa, Florida), "'Until this institution can defend objective human rights, not subjective ideological bias, it is a scourge to the values it claims to champion,' she added." [Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 11/6/23]
Anna Paulina Luna Criticized UNHRC For Ignoring China's Abuses In 2023 According to The Free Press (Tampa, Florida), "'The hypocrisy in all of this is while the UNHRC lectures Israel on defense, China (one of their HRC members) is actively putting Muslims in concentration camps,' Luna said. 'It's time they save the world their virtue-signaling and we defund them.'" [Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 11/6/23]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Cited Lack Of Accountability In Ukraine Aid In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "What I will tell you is currently right now with Ukraine, while we are sending money over there, there is no accountability." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN, 4/18/24]