Democrats seize spending momentum after terror attacks

The Washington Examiner reports:

Following last week's Islamic terror attacks in France, Democrats are claiming the upper hand in the looming fight over the president’s executive action on immigration.

Democrats took to the Senate floor Monday to claim a House Republican spending bill aimed at defunding the executive action would put the nation at risk by threatening spending on the Department of Homeland Security.

“We shouldn’t even be debating the Department of Homeland Security in this moment of history,” Democratic Minority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said on the Senate floor Monday, less than a week after a massacre at the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

It's all about the Benjamins for Dick Durbin and his lobbyist wife.