The US House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to override President Donald Trump’s first veto, leaving in place the “national emergency” he declared last month to build a US-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded, Reuters reported.

Democrats, who control the House, did not attract enough Republican support, falling some three dozen votes short of the two-thirds majority vote needed to overturn Trump’s veto.

Trump made the declaration in February, citing what he said was a border security and humanitarian crisis to allow him to reallocate $3.6 billion from other government projects to pay for wall construction along the US-Mexico border, the Voice of America recalled.

Both the Democrat-led House and the Republican-majority Senate approved a bill rejecting his move.

Trump’s veto was his first since taking office in 2017.