Sunny Hostin Confronts Chuck Schumer On ‘The View’ As She Accuses Him Of Failing To Fight Against Trump And Musk
Sunny Hostin is telling it like it is. The View co-host criticized House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on yesterday’s show, and she stuck to her guns today when welcoming to the Hot Topics table as a guest — and grilling him on why he “caved” and voted for a G.O.P. spending bill, a move that has been condemned by multiple high-power Democrats.
Sen. Schumer appeared on The View days after he voted to back the G.O.P. bill to avoid a government shutdown last Friday (March 14), a move only nine other Democrats also made. The rest of the party has been vocal in their disappointment, and Hostin, who is also a Democrat, is right there with them.
While she noted that she and Schumer are friends, she told him this morning, “It gives me no pleasure to say this to you… but I think you caved. I think you and nine other Democrats caved.”
She continued, “I don’t think you showed the fight that this party needs right now, because you’re playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away,” as Schumer nodded along to her remarks and even said, “True.”
Hostin added, “So in my view, what you did really was in supporting that G.O.P. partisan bill that Democrats had no input in, you cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security, to gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid. Why did you lead Democratic senators to play by that book that the Republicans are not playing by?”
Schumer insisted “nobody” wants to fight more than him, but told Hostin, “You’ve got to fight smart.” While the Senator was clear the G.O.P. bill was “bad” and he even “hated it,” he said Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would be “far more susceptible to being eliminated” were the government shut down.
“If you have two choices — one bad, the other devastating — one chops off one of your fingers, the other chops off your arm? So I wanna fight, and we are fighting. We’re gonna fight every day,” he insisted.
Yesterday, Hostin told The View that Schumer failed to ignite that fight.
“This was a fight that needed to happen, and it didn’t happen because of Chuck Schumer. If you think about it, Republicans would have had to own that government shutdown,” she said. “They have control of everything, and it would have been squarely on their backs.”
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
