In Florida's 13th District, 218,765 people collect Social Security, and Social Security's own chief actuary puts the added net cost of the law Anna Paulina Luna voted for on July 3, 2025 at $168.6 billion through 2034, enough to move the retirement fund's shortfall up a quarter, to late 2032.
Rep. Luna's April 2025 yea, decisive on a 216-214 vote, adopted the budget blueprint that allowed $4.5 trillion of added deficits for tax changes, and the final law she voted for lowered the tax on benefits. At the retirement fund's exhaustion, Florida's exposure is the 24% across-the-board cut that CRFB sizes at $496 a month apiece for 4.6 million Floridians.
Anna Paulina Luna's Votes That Raised Social Security's Costs
- $168.6 Billion in New Social Security Costs and a Shortfall Moved to Late 2032 Trace to Luna's July 2025 Yea. Roll call 190 on July 3, 2025, final passage of H.R. 1 at 218 to 214, counted Rep. Anna Paulina Luna as a yea; six weeks earlier her yea on roll call 145 had been needed for the 215-214 House passage. Because part of the income tax on benefits flows back to the trust funds, cutting it costs the program money: "the total net increase in OASDI program cost is estimated to be $168.6 billion" from 2025 through 2034, the chief actuary wrote. PLANADVISER reports the retirement fund's projected depletion is now the "fourth quarter of 2032, three months earlier than previously expected."
- Luna's Decisive April 2025 Budget Yea Allowed Up to $4.5 Trillion in Deficit-Financed Tax Changes. On April 10, 2025 the House took the Senate's H.Con.Res. 14 by 216 to 214 with Luna's yea; flipped, her vote would have made it 215-215, and a tie fails. That blueprint authorized Ways and Means to draft tax changes that "increase the deficit by not more than $4,500,000,000,000", and a lower tax on benefits was in the final law she voted for on July 3. When Social Security's retirement trust fund runs out, CRFB projects retirees face "an immediate 24% benefit cut upon trust fund exhaustion," which it puts at $496 a month on average in Florida.
What Anna Paulina Luna's Votes Cost Social Security Beneficiaries in Florida and the 13th District
- 218,765 people in Luna's district draw checks from trust funds the law leaves $168.6 billion poorer. Per the agency's 2024 congressional district statistics, Florida's 13th District had 218,765 Social Security beneficiaries in December 2024, 177,618 retired workers and 18,619 disabled workers among them. A $168.6 billion rise in net program costs through 2034 comes out of the funds those checks are paid from.
- $26.6 billion a year would leave Florida's economy when the automatic cut hits. CRFB's state-by-state map pegs Florida's loss from a 24% across-the-board cut at $26.6 billion a year, 1.5% of state GDP, landing on 4.6 million Floridians, almost a fifth of the population.
- Florida's 4,063,202 retired workers on Social Security face a retirement-fund shortfall that now arrives a quarter sooner. Florida's statewide count at the close of 2024 was 5,161,992 Social Security beneficiaries, SSA's figures show, and the 4,063,202 retired workers among them depend on a retirement fund now set to run short in late 2032.
Frequently Asked Questions About Anna Paulina Luna on Social Security
What is Anna Paulina Luna's record on Social Security under Trump?
Anna Paulina Luna's July 3, 2025 yea helped enact a law that, by the chief actuary's estimate, raises Social Security's net costs $168.6 billion through 2034 by trimming taxes on benefits that feed the trust funds, and her April 2025 budget yea, a decisive one, opened the deficit room for it. The retirement fund now runs short a quarter earlier, in late 2032.
How did Anna Paulina Luna's vote speed up Social Security's shortfall?
The law Anna Paulina Luna voted for lowers the income tax retirees pay on their benefits, and part of that tax is credited to the trust funds, so they collect less while still paying the same checks. With less coming in, depletion of the retirement fund arrives three months sooner than projected before the law.
What would the automatic Social Security cut cost Floridians after Anna Paulina Luna's vote?
Once the retirement fund runs short, sooner because of the law Anna Paulina Luna voted for, CRFB calculates a 24% across-the-board cut would cost Floridians an average of $496 a month each, 4.6 million people, 19.8% of the state. In her district, Florida's 13th, 177,618 retired workers drew benefits at the end of 2024.
Last updated: 2026-10-27