- The House of Representatives failed to garner enough votes to override President Trump's veto of the resolution crafted to terminate his national emergency declaration.
- A veto override would have required a two-thirds majority of both the House and Senate to reverse Trump's decision.
- Trump's national emergency declaration is also facing several lawsuits.
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives failed to garner enough votes to override President Donald Trump's veto of the resolution crafted to terminate his national emergency declaration to divert military funds and build a wall along the United States border with Mexico.
The inability of Congress to override Trump's veto from earlier this month means that for the time being, the national emergency declaration will go on as the White House has planned.
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. That vote came after the House passed the same resolution in February, where 13 Republicans crossed the aisle.
The House's failure to override the veto comes after an INSIDER poll showing that almost twice as many Americans supported Congress' effort to reject the president.
But the emergency declaration is not exactly settled, as it still faces a host of lawsuits, including one from a coalition of nearly two-dozen states led by California.
The multi-state lawsuit challenging the emergency declaration argues that money appropriated to their respective states could be at risk as a result of the White House's decision to reprogram certain funds.
When the lawsuit was announced, Trump took to Twitter to rail against it as a plot created by the "Radical Left."
"As I predicted, 16 states, led mostly by Open Border Democrats and the Radical Left, have filed a lawsuit in, of course, the 9th Circuit!" Trump wrote on Twitter. "California, the state that has wasted billions of dollars on their out of control Fast Train, with no hope of completion, seems in charge!"
Trump has been racking up political victories this week and with the House's failure to override his veto, has snagged yet another win.