{"id":7956,"date":"2025-04-04T01:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/luna-discusses-possible-solution-to-new-parent-proxy-voting-with-johnson\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T01:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:06:39","slug":"luna-discusses-possible-solution-to-new-parent-proxy-voting-with-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/luna-discusses-possible-solution-to-new-parent-proxy-voting-with-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna discusses possible solution to new parent proxy voting with Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has discussed a potential solution with Speaker Mike Johnson over her push to allow proxy voting for new parents, the congresswoman said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realannapaulina\/status\/1907943020982419466?s=46&amp;t=5bp1xFd9eOcpxBSWOjRwzA\" target=\"_blank\">in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Johnson] has called me after POTUS statement and we discussed limiting the vote to just new moms who cannot physically travel in event of emergency,\u201d Luna said in the post. \u201cThis is smart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump told reporters earlier on Thursday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/03\/congress\/trump-proxy-voting-support-00271110\" target=\"_blank\">he endorsed letting new mothers vote by proxy<\/a> in the House \u2014 but ultimately said it was Johnson&#8217;s decision. Luna had forced a vote on the issue, which tanked the rest of Johnson\u2019s legislative plans for the week after an attempt to stop her effort through a rule vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why it\u2019s controversial,\u201d Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday, according to a pool report. He added, \u201cI\u2019m going to let the speaker make the decision, but I like the idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, a former constitutional lawyer facing, is pressure from conservative hard-liners to stop Luna and has argued the practice is unconstitutional. Moments before Luna\u2019s tweet, Johnson shared an op-ed from the Washington Times in opposition to expanding proxy voting in a post on X that has since been deleted. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), one conservative hard-liner against allowing new parents to vote by proxy, responded to Luna&#8217;s update that the possible solution is still \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and \u201cwrong\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1907947059556266415?s=46\" target=\"_blank\">in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has discussed a potential solution with Speaker Mike Johnson over her push to allow proxy voting for new parents, the congresswoman said in a post on X. \u201c[Johnson] has called me after POTUS statement and we discussed limiting the vote to just new moms who cannot physically travel in event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}