In a rare display of bipartisanship, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to pass a sweeping housing bill on Monday—with only five lawmakers voting against the legislation. Ten other Senators did not vote.

All five of the lawmakers who voted against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act are Republicans: Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Rick Scott of Florida, and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. 

The bill seeks to increase the U.S. housing supply by easing regulations and encouraging building, lower housing costs, restrict the presence of institutional investors in the single-family housing market, and give more control over housing to local jurisdictions, among a host of other provisions. 

The legislation now heads to the House, where it is similarly expected to pass with broad support from both sides of the aisle, and could reach President Donald Trump’s desk as soon as this week. 

Here’s what each of the five Senators who voted against the bill have said about it.

Tommy Tuberville

Tuberville said in a written statement to TIME that he’s “looking for ways to bring down housing costs for American families. But giving the federal government more control over housing is not the answer.”

“We have seen time and time again that writing a blank check to blue cities means that federal tax dollars will end up in the hands of illegals instead of going to the American citizens it was intended to help,” Tuberville said. “This bill also expands the already bloated Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is the opposite of what we need to be doing. We should be focused on getting government out of the way and allowing the free market to drive down costs through competition and a booming economy.”

Tuberville also voted against an earlier Senate version of the bill in March. At the time, a spokesperson for the Senator told the Alabama Daily News that “like President Trump,” Tuberville “thinks the Save America Act is our No. 1 priority and doesn’t think we should be wasting our time on anything else.”  

Trump that month vowed not to sign any legislation until Congress passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, a bill that would impose stricter voter identification requirements. Months later, the President is continuing to press congressional Republicans to push the legislation through.

The White House has, however, expressed support for the final version of the housing bill.  

Mike Lee

In a statement following his nay vote, Lee contended that the legislation fails to adequately address the housing affordability issue

“Americans need more affordable housing. Unfortunately, this bill doesn’t do enough to provide it, instead increasing the federal government’s long-running and failed involvement in the U.S. housing market,” Lee said. 

The Utah Senator further critiqued the bill for only temporarily banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency, a form of U.S. currency issued by the government, rather than prohibiting it from doing so permanently. Lee earlier this year reintroduced legislation seeking to implement a permanent ban; at the time, his office contended in a press release that the Fed creating such a currency would restrict financial institutions’ ability to offer loans and that “the Federal Reserve would have knowledge of every transaction involving” the currency.

In his statement on his opposition to the housing bill, Lee also argued that the legislation “does not do nearly enough to safeguard housing programs for American citizens only.” He went on to detail several measures he believes need to be taken “to truly improve housing affordability,” among them continuing “mass deportations” of undocumented immigrants who he claimed are “placing a significant burden on housing availability and affordability for American citizens.”

Rick Scott

Scott highlighted an amendment he offered to the housing bill that he said was not entertained in a post on X ahead of the final Senate vote on the measure.

“If we’re passing the ROAD to Housing Act, I think it’s only fair to make sure it actually works,” the Florida Senator said.

“I offered an Amendment to make sure Congress gets an annual report on how this bill directly impacts housing affordability for middle income homeowners. But, I never got the chance to bring it up. This should have been a no-brainer. It proves that what we’re doing HELPS the American people.”

Last week, Scott wrote on X that “home prices are going through the roof in America and Congress is playing around with solutions that will only make things worse — not better,” in response to another post sharing Zillow’s recent finding that “starter homes” cost at least $1 million in 242 cities. “Point me to the section of the ‘ROAD to Housing’ bill that actually makes housing more affordable for middle class families,” Scott said at the time.

In another post last week, Scott said that “Homes now cost FIVE TIMES more than a family’s median income. The REAL reason? Congress. Congress just spends, spends, and spends with no end in sight and Americans are left with higher interest rates and rampant inflation.”

Ron Johnson

Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on his vote against the housing bill.

The Wisconsin Senator also voted against the Senate version of the legislation in March. A spokesperson for Johnson told the outlet The Center Square at the time that “he voted against the bill for several reasons – many of them laid out” in a column from The Wall Street Journal editorial board that opined that the bill would result in the creation of less housing due to the restrictions it would place on large, institutional investors buying single-family homes. The final version of the bill also includes such restrictions.

“The Senator does not like the government imposing itself into the marketplace and artificially reducing the demand, the number of buyers, and the price homeowners can obtain when they sell their homes,” the spokesperson said. 

Rand Paul 

Paul’s office also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on his nay vote. 

The Kentucky Senator, too, was among those who voted against the Senate version of the bill in March, and made comments about his opposition to the legislation at the time.

In a March post on X, Paul called the bill the “Path Toward the Destruction of Property Rights Act,” and expressed his opposition to the limits it would put on institutional investors—at length.

Among other criticisms of the restrictions, he wrote that “Since there are two sides to every transaction, the provision also acts as a prohibition on property owners from selling their property to the highest bidder“ and “Since many of the houses owned by institutional investors are rented, banning this class of investors may decrease the number of rental houses thus raising rents.”

Paul also cited data showing that institutional investors’ share of the single-family home market is extremely low––something housing experts have previously highlighted to TIME. 

“With such a miniscule amount of the housing stock owned by large investors, the proposed ban could well have little to no effect on housing affordability or rent,” Paul wrote.