Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida is facing backlash after announcing plans to host members of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in Washington next month.
“Rep. Luna’s decision to roll out the red carpet for members of a far-right, Holocaust revisionist, Putin-loving party is grotesque,” said Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, a co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism.
Luna posted on X late last month that she had met in D.C. with Anna Rathert, a member of Germany’s Bundestag and part of the AfD’s parliamentary group. “I look forward to hosting you all in DC in December!” Luna wrote. A few days earlier, in a separate post, she had invited AfD co-leader Alice Weidel to Washington to meet with members of Congress. Weidel replied that she would contact Luna to “make it happen.”