Luna: War hawks should ‘fight on the front lines’ if they advocate for sending Americans to war

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said she will introduce legislation requiring politicians who call for sending American troops to Ukraine also have to fight on the front lines.

“In honor of Chuck Schumer, I’ll be introducing a bill that will require any politician who advocates for sending American troops to Ukraine to be required to fight on the front lines with them,” she said.

Luna’s remark is in response to a viral video of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warning that American troops could get involved in a war with Russia if the country doesn’t get behind more Ukraine funding.

The latest border package includes $60 billion for Ukraine, and $20 billion for America’s own border.

Schumer said the negotiations took around four months. Republicans in both chambers, including Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., have shot the measure down and pronounced it “dead on arrival.”

“If we don’t aid Ukraine, Putin will be walk all over Ukraine, we will lose the war,” Schumer said. “We could be fighting in eastern Europe in a NATO ally in a few years. Americans won’t like that.”

He also said “humanitarian aid” must be sent to Gaza in Hamas’ war with Israel.

Schumer praised Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y., saying he “[rose] to the occasion.”

“It’s a compromise. I don’t like everything in it,” Schumer said. “That’s the only way you get things important done in the Senate.”

Luna vowed House Republicans will “kill this Senate bill.”

Florida’s GOP senators and representatives reject Senate border deal: ‘Reads like a parody’

Sen. Rick Scott slammed the bill after Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said under the proposal, “the border never closes.”

“This is not a border security bill,” Scott said.

Murphy said that the legislation creates a “brand new right to legal representation for all immigrants,” citing legal representation troubles for those impacted by the Trump administration’s prior travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries.

“Not allowed to close the border, but YOU are now paying for lawyers to represent illegal aliens unlawfully crossing the border,” Scott said. “That’s how this bill uses your tax dollars.”

Sen. Marco Rubio denounced it as well, calling it an “easy NO.”

“It reads like a parody of an actual border security bill,” Rubio said.