Republican House Group Loses Another Member As Infighting Grows

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is leaving the party's Freedom Caucus in the Lower House over a disagreement, marking the latest departure from the combative group.

Concretely, Luna is leaving over the caucus' opposition to allow House members who are new parents to vote by proxy. "With a heavy heart, I am resigning from the Freedom Caucus," Luna wrote in a letter, which was reported by Axios. She went on to say that the group's opposition to her initiative "shattered" the "mutual respect that has guided our caucus."

"I cannot remain part of a caucus where a select few operate outside its guidelines, misuse its name, broker backroom deals that undermine its core values and where the lines of compromise and transaction are blurred, disparage me to the press, and encourage misrepresentation of me to the American people," reads a passage of the letter.

The outlet detailed that Luna is the fourth Rep. to leave the group in the past two years. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was ejected in 2023 after supporting then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Then last July Rep. Warren Davidson was kicked out after he endorsed a primary challenger to Bob Good, who was the Freedom Caucus chair back then.

The House Freedom Caucus declined to comment on Luna's departure.