The Republican House Members Who Voted Against the Sweeping Bipartisan Housing Bill

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The U.S. Capitol Building is seen in Washington, D.C., at sunset on June 1, 2026. —Kevin Carter—Getty ImagesThe House on Tuesday passed a sweeping housing bill with overwhelming bipartisan support, sending it to President Donald Trump’s desk, though a group of Republicans broke from the pack by voting against the measure. The Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act a day earlier, with just five Republican Senators voting nay. In the House, meanwhile, the measure passed in a 358-32 vote. All the lawmakers who voted against it were Republicans. Those 32 nays were: Reps. Aaron Bean of Florida, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Sheri Biggs of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Kat Cammack of Florida, Michael Cloud of Texas, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Eli Crane of Arizona, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Byron Donalds of Florida, Randy Fine of Florida, Clay Fuller of Georgia, Brandon Gill of Texas, Andy Harris of Maryland, Mark Harris of North Carolina, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Morgan Luttrell of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Tom McClintock of California, Mary Miller of Illinois, Barry Moore of Alabama, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Bob Onder of Missouri, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Chip Roy of Texas, David Schweikert of Arizona, Keith Self of Texas, and Greg Steube of Florida. The House delegations from Florida and Texas had the most members opposing the bill––the former with six and the latter five.Read More: What to Know About the Landmark Housing Bill Congress Just PassedThe housing bill includes more than 50 provisions aimed at increasing the U.S. housing supply, reducing costs for homebuyers and renters, and restricting the role of large, institutional investors in the single-family housing market, among other things. It is set to be the largest housing package to become law in decades.   President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday that the bill’s signing ceremony “is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT,” a restrictive piece of voting legislation Trump has repeatedly said must be passed before he signs any other bills. The bill can still become law without Trump’s signature, and he has not indicated that he intends to go so far as vetoing it. Prior to Trump’s post, however, the White House had expressed support for the housing bill. When asked for comment, the White House referred TIME back to the President’s post.Read More: Trump Says He Won’t Sign Housing Bill Until Congress Passes the SAVE Act. Here’s How It Can Become Law AnywaySeveral of the 32 House Republicans who voted against the housing bill echoed the President’s push for the SAVE America Act, either reposting his announcement or highlighting the voter ID legislation as a priority on Wednesday. Many of the nay votes in the lower chamber have also also expressed a key point of opposition to the bill: that it only temporarily––instead of permanently––bans the Federal Reserve from creating a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a digital form of the U.S. dollar issued by the country’s central bank.Of the 32 House members who voted against the housing bill on Tuesday, 21 of them signed a March letter to congressional leaders thatM expressed a “dire need to prohibit a Central Bank Digital Currency from ever happening in the United States,” while imploring that such a prohibition “must be permanent.”The letter, addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, was written in response to a previous version of the housing bill. The compromise bicameral version that Congress passed this week still includes the temporary CBDC prohibition the members objected to, which would sunset at the end of 2030. “A Central Bank Digital Currency would expose Americans to unconstitutional financial surveillance and give the unelected Federal Reserve unprecedented power over Americans’ finances that would violate their civil liberties and financial freedom,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter. “A CBDC is inherently anti-American and a looming issue we must put an end to before it is too late.”Cloud, who led the letter, posted a video on his X account on Wednesday showing Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts informing him that he’s submitted an amendment to Congress to block the federal government from issuing a CBDC 38 times in the current Congress, to which Cloud responds: “You’re welcome.”Cloud was also one of the House members who voiced support for Trump’s message pushing Congress to first and foremost pass the SAVE Act on Wednesday after voting against the housing bill the previous day. Reps. Roy, Perry, Self, Clyde, Miller, Biggs, Andy Harris, Mark Harris, Davidson, Norman, and Fine were also among the lawmakers who both signed the March letter pressing for a permanent CBDC ban and on Wednesday reposted Trump’s Truth Social announcement on X or called for the passage of the voting legislation. “Last night, I joined 31 of my colleagues to STAND FIRM with President Trump in refusing to pass ANY SENATE BILLS until the SAVE America Act is passed,” wrote Norman on Wednesday. “That included voting NO on Elizabeth Warren’s housing package. It wasn't conservative enough, added more Washington involvement, and failed to address the spending crisis.” Warren led the housing bill in the Senate along with Republican Sen. Tim Scott, while the legislation was led in the House by Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters and Republican Rep. French Hill.Read More: The Five Republican Senators Who Voted Against the Bipartisan Housing Affordability BillSeveral Republicans who voted nay on the housing bill also previously signed a letter pledging to vote against any other bills until the SAVE Act is passed, including Luna, Higgins, Boebert, Donalds, Burlison, and Gill. Republicans in the group of 32 have also expressed opposition to other aspects of the housing bill.Perry told Politico in response to an earlier version of the legislation that “I’m not thrilled about being asked to vote for a bunch of Elizabeth Warren rent control policies, pricing control and rent policies that are downright socialist, if not outright communist.” Harris, the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, also expressed his broad opposition to the bill, telling the outlet then that “we’ll deal with housing in some way. It’s not going to be the way the Senate is going to send it over to the House.”Other House members who voted against the final version of the legislation have taken issue with the restrictions it would impose on institutional investors buying single-family homes, such as Bean, Davidson, and Fine, who expressed their opposition to such restrictions in an April letter to both party’s leaders in the lower chamber.