Sunny Hostin had candid phrases for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) all through his look on “The View” Tuesday early morning.
The New York legislator has come under fire only in the near past after he and nine other Senate Democrats appeared delighted to give up any leverage against Republican efforts to destroy authorities firms and turned off federal authorities investing with out legislative authorization.
The objection over Schumer’s actions led him to postpone a book tour on Monday over “security concerns,” nevertheless he went on “The View” on Tuesday anyhow, probably anticipating an understanding panel.
However, Hostin actually didn’t get hold of that memorandum. Although she referred to as Schumer a “friend,” she candidly knowledgeable him that she had not been thrilled by his present actions– or wouldn’t have thereof.
“I think you and nine other Democrats caved. I don’t think you showed the fight this party needs right now because you’re playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away,” Hostin said.
“So, in my view, what you did 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?”
Schumer concurred with Hostin that his GOP equivalents aren’t taking part in by the “rules,” nevertheless urged he’s up for the struggle.
“OK, first I’d say, Sunny, no one wants to fight more than me and no one fights more than me,” he said.
Schumer moreover asserted the expense he approved– which he states he “hated”– “does far less damage” to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid than would definitely have occurred or else.
He said the “bad” expense that he selected has “many fewer cuts in that bill than there would be in a shutdown,” and said he wanted to pick out in between “bad” and “devastating.”
“One chops off one of your fingers, the other chops off your arm? So I want to fight, and we are fighting every day,” he said. “Today, we’re fighting them on Medicaid. Tomorrow, we’re going to fight them on, you know, the next few days on tariffs. We’re going to fight them on Social Security, but I want to win and fight smart.”
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“No one wants to fight more than me.”
Senate Minority Leader @SenSchumer replies to film critics that declare he caved when electing the Republicans’ House- accepted federal authorities financing expense: “We’re going to stick it to them, and fight smart and win.” pic.twitter.com/svC5axVSgE
— The View (@TheView) March 18, 2025
