(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate for the second time failed to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration diverting taxpayer money for his wall at the southern border, as most Republicans continued to side with his effort.

The 53-36 vote was short of the two-thirds margin needed to override the president’s veto, allowing his emergency declaration to survive. Democrats and some Republicans say Trump is trampling Congress’s power over spending and is diverting billions of dollars from military needs to construct the wall he promised supporters in 2016 campaign.

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