Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says members of Congress should have to disclose dual citizenship, warning that divided loyalties pose a real national security risk on Capitol Hill.
Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna went on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show” and argued that lawmakers should no longer hide whether they hold citizenship in another country.
She tied the push to a reported raid at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence and to wider questions about foreign ties, secret clearances, and who gets trusted with America’s most sensitive information.
Breitbart News carried the exchange, in which Luna said Congress has long operated under a different standard than the public it claims to serve.
Host Will Cain opened with the Omar story.
"Let’s start with your colleague, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. What do you make of this raid this morning on Ilhan Omar’s residence in D.C.?"
Luna did not litigate every detail of the raid. She said that if the allegations hold up, they must be handled under the law. Then she moved to the larger point she and several House colleagues have been pressing.
"Look, members of Congress, it seems like, for a long time have been held to a different standard. And if these allegations are true, then it needs to be dealt with legally. But, ultimately, well, this is exactly why myself, members like Kat Cammack, even Randy Fine have pushed for there to be a disclosure, at least for people to know whether or not members of Congress are dual citizens. We see that El-Sayed in Michigan is currently apparently a citizen of Egypt as well. And that’s something that I don’t think many Americans realize is a very big national security threat in the House of Representatives. But this also gets into bigger conversation on disclosures in general specifically pertaining to FARA."
FARA is the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the federal law meant to expose people who push foreign interests inside the United States. Luna cast dual-citizenship disclosure as part of that same honesty agenda.
Cain said the dual-citizenship question around the Michigan figure has been an open fight and is “not quite 100% confirmed,” unless Luna had information he did not. He still agreed with her core demand.
"Yes, I have seen the back-and-forth on this. Seems like it’s not quite 100% confirmed, unless you know some information that I do not about El-Sayed, but that’s been an open conversation. Does he have dual citizenship? And it brings up, I think, the larger question. Yes, to your point, Congresswoman, we should know. And there’s a reason that we should know, because dual citizenship suggests divided loyalties. So why do we have dual citizenship on elected politicians?"
That is the heart of the argument Luna is selling to voters: if someone can cast votes, create law, and see classified material, the public has a right to know whether another country also claims that person as its own.
Luna did not soften the point when Cain pressed the loyalty question.
"Well, 100%. You can’t be expected to have, God forbid there’s a wartime situation. Where does your loyalty lie? It should only lie to the United States. And what I would say is, with El-Sayed specifically, I think he’s out on stage. I actually saw the clip. I reposted it on my social media saying that he had Egyptian citizenship. So, I mean, look, that’s one thing that I will tell you, when you’re given access to top secret information, we know that there’s also been issue with his candidacy and him specifically wanting to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood. These are very real threats here."
She added that the worry is not limited to one lawmaker or one country. Espionage risks tied to China, she said, belong in the same conversation. Her bottom line was blunt.
"But it’s not just him, it’s also to issues of espionage specifically pertaining to China, etc. So, my opinion, only American citizens should be able to hold elected office."
On the available record from the interview, Luna is not describing a finished bill number or a floor schedule. She is describing a standard.
She says she, Rep. Kat Cammack, and Randy Fine have already pushed for disclosure so Americans can see which members of Congress hold a second passport. She frames that as basic accountability for people cleared into top-secret material and seated in the House.
She also folds the fight into a broader disclosures debate that includes FARA, the statute designed to drag foreign influence work into daylight. In her telling, voters should not need a cable-news spat to learn whether a member’s legal allegiance is split.
Cain’s on-air caution about the Michigan citizenship claim matters. He treated it as contested. Luna treated a clip she reposted as enough to put the issue on the table. The verified through-line is not a finished courtroom finding on any one politician. It is Luna’s demand that Congress stop treating dual citizenship as a private detail.
Americans who pass background checks for ordinary federal work already face hard questions about foreign ties. Luna’s case is that the people writing the country’s laws should not get a softer deal.
If divided loyalty is harmless, disclosure will show it. If it is not, voters deserve the chance to judge before the next crisis arrives.
