Lawmakers of both parties generally agree that there is an unfolding humanitarian crisis at the border, with many families from Central America attempting to enter the US, but Democrats argue that a wall won't help with that.
Lawmakers voted 248-181 to overturn Trump's veto, but that fell 38 votes shy of the required two-thirds margin.
Just 14 Republicans joined 234 Democrats in voting to override, one more Republican than had bucked Trump in a previous House vote on the border wall emergency.
Public opinion was split sharply along party lines, with Democrats much more likely than Republicans to believe that Trump colluded with Russian Federation and obstructed justice.
The House easily passed the resolution of disapproval in February.
However, the National Emergencies Act does allow Democrats to bring up another disapproval resolution six months from now, something House Democrats are actively considering. "Today's vote simply reaffirms Congressional Democrats are the party of Open Borders, Drugs and Crime!"
Opponents warned that besides usurping the role of Congress in making spending decisions, Trump was inviting future Democratic presidents to circumvent lawmakers by declaring emergencies to finance their own favored initiatives.
House Democrats had hoped the strong showing of GOP support in the Senate might prompt more Republicans to support the veto override than had initially voted for the resolution.
"We take an oath to the Constitution, not to the president of the United States", Pelosi said on the House floor.
Trump, who campaigned heavily on hard-line immigration rhetoric, said he has the authority to declare a national emergency under a 1976 law.
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"The Mueller report was great", the president said. "The president is using the authority Congress has given him", said Republican Representative Sam Graves.
Tuesday's vote was coming as Trump claimed a different political triumph after Attorney General William Barr said special counsel Robert Mueller had ended his two-year investigation without evidence of collusion by Trump's 2016 campaign with the Russian government.
The Senate passed the resolution 59-41 , with 12 Republicans joining a unanimous conference of Democrats, issuing an embarrassment to Trump, whose administration attempted to quell the rebellion brewing in the lead up to the vote.
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'The President's lawless emergency declaration clearly violates the Congress's exclusive power of the purse, and Congress will work through the appropriations and defense authorization processes to terminate this risky action and restore our constitutional system of balance of powers, ' she said in a statement after the vote.
"The committee denies this request".
The Pentagon had announced Monday that it was shifting $1 billion from military construction projects to build part of the wall. Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.
President Donald Trump is nearing a victory over Democrats as the House tries overriding his first veto.
After Congress signed an appropriations bill earlier this year that only approved $1.4 billion for border security, Trump declared a national emergency to appropriate additional funds to construct his wall along the U.S. -Mexico border. She kept her Democrats in line and stood firm against the president during the month-long government shutdown over the fight to fund Trump's wall.
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