By Molly Goddard
11:53pm PDT, Mar 19, 2025
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Sunny Hostin isn't afraid to tell politicians how she feels about their leadership.
During the Tuesday, March 18,
episode of
The View, the staunch Democratic panelist confronted House Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer about how she thought he "caved" to the Republicans' spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
Join us to hear Hostin's tough critique of the leftist senator for seemingly helping the GOP…
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"It gives me no pleasure to say this to you, but I think you caved. I think you and nine other Democrats caved," Sunny Hostin told Chuck Schumer about his Friday, March 14, action to pass the
right-wing bill.
"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," the attorney told the politician.
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Chuck Schumer wasn't confrontational about the remarks from Sunny Hostin, nodding his head and adding "true" to some of her points.
The television co-host accused the civil servant of making it easier for President
Donald Trump and DOGE specialist
Elon Musk to dismantle the government. "What you did really was in supporting that GOP 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?" she pressed.
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Chuck Schumer explained to the women on the panel how "nobody" wants to put up a battle against the
Republicans more than himself. "You've got to fight smart," he emphasized.
While the New York native expressed how he "hated" the GOP bill, he noted how Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would be "far more susceptible to being eliminated" if there were a government shutdown.
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"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 want to fight and we are fighting. We're going to fight every day," Chuck Schumer said.
Other prominent members of the
Democratic party have condemned the former senate majority leader for the move in favor of the right.
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Former House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi expressed her disapproval of Chuck Schumer's decision during a news briefing at a children's hospital in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, March 18.
"I myself don't give away anything for nothing," she remarked. "I think that's what happened the other day. We could have, in my view, perhaps, gotten them to agree to a third way."
