Anna Paulina Luna has consistently criticized bipartisan U.S. foreign policy, particularly prolonged military involvement and "nation-building" in the Middle East, advocating for a focus on American interests and a realistic approach to national security (Free Press, 3/16/23).
She condemned both the Biden and Obama administrations for foreign policy missteps, including the Afghanistan withdrawal, Middle East interventions, Iran negotiations, and the handling of the Chinese balloon incident, arguing these decisions weakened U.S. security and global standing (Florida Politics, 9/5/21, Fox Business, 2/10/23, CQ Transcriptions, 4/16/24).
Luna is a strong supporter of Donald Trump's foreign policy, expressing that his approach would prevent large-scale conflicts and criticizing efforts to limit his influence in shaping U.S. strategy (Fox News, 12/9/24, Fox News, 6/13/24).
She has taken a leading role in demanding transparency and accountability on national security issues such as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), supporting bipartisan investigations and highlighting the risks these pose to military and civilian aviation in Florida (Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23).
Potential vulnerability: Luna's assertive stances---such as supporting U.S. acquisition of Greenland and opposing additional Ukraine aid---may be controversial or viewed as divergence from mainstream policy consensus (FOX News, 3/28/25, CNN, 4/18/24).
2021: Anna Paulina Luna Condemned U.S. Leadership For Afghanistan Withdrawal In an interview with Florida Politics, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I think our leaders need to be held accountable. Andy and I lost a lot of friends in this war. And I'm afraid we'll lose more. I'm still working with some organizations to try to evacuate some people. But we are running out of time. [...] It's an absolute disgrace, and as a prominent Tampa Bay resident recently said in the Wall Street Journal, it is to the eternal shame of the United States of America. It's a disaster. It's heartbreaking. And it's angering. And the morale of our troops is in shambles. They have been betrayed by our leaders after sacrificing so much." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with Florida Politics, 9/5/21]
2025: Anna Paulina Luna Supported U.S. Acquisition Of Greenland In an interview with FOX News, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I would actually argue, from a strategic standpoint, Jesse, that [Greenland] 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." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with FOX News (Jesse Watters Primetime), 3/28/25]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Supported U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Syria According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna wrote, "the troop pullout [from Syria is] one of many necessary steps to redirect our nation's foreign policy away from a failed internationalist foreign policy consensus on both sides of the aisle that for a quarter century has wasted our resources and carelessly spilled the blood of our soldiers across the globe." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Criticized Bipartisan Foreign Policy Leading To Ongoing U.S. Military Presence In Syria According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna described Syria as a "prime example" of flawed foreign policy thinking "kept alive by warmongers on both the Right and Left." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Opposed U.S. 'Nation-Building' In The Middle East According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna said, "All that has resulted from this failed mission is the Middle East emerging as a region of permanent protectorates, with zero upsides and no measurable benefit to the United States. In fact, it has only increased local hostility." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2023: Luna Identified Military Bases As Areas Of UAP Concern According to Tampa Bay Times, "Florida's Gulf Coast is also home to some of the biggest military bases in the country, including MacDill AFB, as well as the military's unique Gulf testing range. UAPs in the skies over Florida present a range of different concerns, and I believe that transparency drives the best public policy." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Referenced Military Service and Husband's Combat Injury in Opposing Additional Ukraine Aid In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I'm an Air Force veteran, and my husband was shot in Afghanistan in 2014, so I first and foremost know definitely the unfortunate blood that is shed by this country and our young people as a result of people up here Washington making decisions." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN News Central, 4/18/24]
December 2024: Luna Expressed Support For Trump's Foreign Policy Approach According to Fox News, "It's the alpha energy that the world needs right now. You know, after four years of Biden and terrible foreign policy, I think not just the United States, but the world, was ready for someone to take the reins and get us back to some form of normalcy, because we could not handle another four years. I did believe that if Trump didn't win, I believe that we would have ended up in World War Three." [Fox News JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, 12/9/24]
December 2024: Luna Criticized Biden's Engagement And Effectiveness As President According to Fox News, "But remember, and Jesse, I think it was on your show talking about this exact same thing, but Biden has been checked out for a while, hence why we wanted to hear the original transcripts in his interviews about the Presidential Record." [Fox News JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME, 12/9/24]
December 2024: Luna Claimed Biden Administration Tried To Prevent Trump From Pursuing Aggressive Foreign Policy According to Fox News INGRAHAM ANGLE 7:00 PM EST, 22For months, we've been hearing from our friends in the Senate that the Biden administration was trying to run the traps to prevent President Trump from having an aggressive foreign policy that would pursue peace, especially in that region.22 [Fox News INGRAHAM ANGLE 7:00 PM EST, 12/27/24]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Attributed Rise Of ISIS To U.S. Middle East Policy Under Obama According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna argued, "Obama 'raised false hopes among a certain section of Syrians that only extended the civil war, and pushed Russia to defend its warm water port in the Mediterranean and get involved militarily. Worse, it resulted in a civil war which directly resulted in the rise of ISIS.'" [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Called For End To 'Utopian Foreign Policy Ideas' And Refocus On U.S. Law And Order According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna concluded, "The era of utopian foreign policy ideas based on faulty theories is over. We need realism in our foreign policy. America's job is not to police the streets of Aleppo. It is to focus on American borders, and law and order in American cities." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2023: Luna Cited Safety Risks Posed By UAPs In Florida According to Tampa Bay Times, "In an emailed statement, Luna said the issue of unidentified aerial phenomena is salient for Floridians. 'Florida is home to some of the largest aviation hubs in the country, and per testimony, these UAP's are posing massive safety issues for civilian flights as well as national security issues,' she said." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
2023: Luna Recounted Service Member Anxieties On Reporting UAPs According to Tampa Bay Times, "Luna, herself an Air Force veteran, said she knew service members who were afraid to come forward about UAP sightings for a fear of retribution and being taken off flight status." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
February 2023: Luna Became Involved After Disclosure From Eglin Air Force Base According to Tampa Bay Times, "Luna first became involved in February when she was approached by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who represents part of the panhandle. According to Gaetz, several months ago, his office received a protective disclosure from Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County regarding a UAP encounter off the coast of Florida. 'As a veteran and someone who worked in airfield management, I found this particularly concerning,' Luna said in a statement." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
2023: Luna Attempted To Interview Pilots At Air Force Base But Was Denied Access According to Tampa Bay Times, "Gaetz, Luna and Burchett traveled to the Air Force base to interview pilots and collect evidence. But 'we were stonewalled,' Luna said. After a back and forth with the base commander, they agreed to let Gaetz in by himself to speak to a pilot and review evidence, Gaetz said during the hearing." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
2023: Luna Supported Creation Of Select Committee To Investigate UAPs According to Tampa Bay Times, "On Friday, Gaetz, Luna, Moskowitz and Burchett sent a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy requesting the creation of a select committee to investigate UAPs." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
2023: Luna Stressed Bipartisan Nature Of UFO Hearings According to Tampa Bay Times, "The hearing and interest in the topic among House members has been a bipartisan effort. Florida Democratic U.S. House members Maxwell Frost and Jared Moskowitz were also involved in the questioning, as was New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another younger legislator to whom Luna has frequently been compared." [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
2023: Luna Asserted Legislative Branch Requires Full UAP Transparency According to Tampa Bay Times, "'The reason(s) why there is such strong bipartisan support for this investigation are the whistleblower concerns and a government that has become so large that it no longer respects the authority of the legislative branch,' Luna said in a statement. 'Our clearances are top-secret, and we need to know. We represent the American people and will continue to work with our Democratic colleagues to push for full transparency.'" [Tampa Bay Times, 7/27/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Criticized Biden's Response To Chinese Balloon Incident In an interview with Fox Business, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I think that it really underplays the threat that China poses to this country. [...] the fact is, is that this entire balloon traversed the country, starting in Alaska, dropping down through Canada, and, as we saw, Montana to really the East Coast. I do think that a better option potentially would have been to capture it. But, at the time, from my understanding, we didn't have the technology to do that. [...] We need to decouple. And I think that we need to look at them as a serious threat. We know, by 2027, they're going to be militarily dwarfing us. And, by 2030, they want to be a world superpower." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with Fox Business, 2/10/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Criticized Biden Administration Response To Chinese Balloon Incident In an interview with Neil Cavuto, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I think that it really underplays the threat that China poses to this country. [...] I do think that a better option potentially would have been to capture it. But, at the time, from my understanding, we didn't have the technology to do that. I think that now that that was, one, a wakeup call for the DOD, but then also to remember China's economically competing with us. We need to decouple. And I think that we need to look at them as a serious threat. We know, by 2027, they're going to be militarily dwarfing us. And, by 2030, they want to be a world superpower." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with Cavuto Cavuto, 2/10/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Criticized Rationales For Continued U.S. Troop Deployment Overseas According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna stated, "The argument that keeping Americans overseas is necessary for stopping terrorist attacks is absurd. Frankly, I'm tired of hearing, 'if we don't fight them there, they'll come here.' By that logic, the entire planet demands an American forward presence." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Asserted Local Terrorism In Distant Countries Did Not Threaten U.S. Homeland According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna wrote, "Local terrorism in distant countries is not an existential threat to America and can be effectively managed by long distance capabilities and prudent alliance strategies." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Described ISIS Threat As 'Minimal' In Syria According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna stated, "ISIS, she continued, is currently a 'minimal' threat, and 'if it rises again as a functioning state, it will not take us much time to return and crush it. In short, nothing in the region demands constant troop deployment and endless war.'" [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Disagreed with Historical Account of NATO and Ukraine In an interview with CNN, Anna Paulina Luna said, "I don't have to respectfully pushback on that because I disagree, but continue, sorry." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with CNN News Central, 4/18/24]
2023: Anna Paulina Luna Emphasized Congressional Duty To U.S. Citizens Over Foreign Interests According to an opinion piece by Liam Edgar in Free Press (Tampa, Florida), Luna stated, "Members of Congress don't swear an oath to the people of Syria, Ukraine, or anywhere else. They swear an oath to the people of the United States." [Liam Edgar - Free Press (Tampa, Florida), 3/16/23]
2024: Anna Paulina Luna Said Her Number One Concern Was National Security In an interview with Fox News Channel, Anna Paulina Luna said, "my number one concern is national security, and really the safety of the American people." [Interview - Anna Paulina Luna with Fox News Channel, 7/4/24]
April 2024: Luna Expressed Concern That Americans Fear Getting Drafted Due To Weak Foreign Policy According to CQ Transcriptions, Luna said, "There's a lot of people that are afraid of getting drafted. I'm hearing that. I actually just addressed a war college recently. And to hear those service members actually think that they might get drafted, I don't want the American people, I don't want people to have to fear that. So I think that, with what we're seeing out of the White House, we are seeing weak leadership." [CQ Transcriptions, 4/16/24]
April 2024: Luna Criticized Biden Administration's Foreign Policy Toward Iran And Israel According to CQ Transcriptions, Luna said, "when you had the Biden administration back in last year, September 11, authorize billions of dollars for Iran, engage in hostage negotiations, and then you saw the attack in October, and then ultimately this attack again by Iran, we're not looking like we're in a strong foreign policy perspective." [CQ Transcriptions, 4/16/24]
June 2024: Luna Asserted Trump Discussed Foreign Policy And Ukraine Plans With GOP Lawmakers According to Fox News, "REP. ANNA PAULINA LUNA (R-FL): [...] many of us were there, they don't want to talk about the fact that he has a plan in dealing with Ukraine, in dealing with our foreign policy debacles that this administration has caused. But it was all net positive and we are very excited about the polling numbers that we are hearing for November." [Fox News JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME 8:00 PM EST, 6/13/24]
June 2024: Luna Claimed Trump Prioritized Concerns Over Russia, Cited Warships Off U.S. Coast According to Fox News, "LUNA: I think the number one issue that he has is especially concern for what's happening right now with Russia. Obviously, there is the media really silencing what's happening with Russia. Warships off the coast of Cuba and also Florida. But I think more importantly, too, he made sure that the American people would know that what is currently happening in Ukraine and Israel would have never happened under him and he does have a plan and solution in moving forward." [Fox News JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME 8:00 PM EST, 6/13/24]