Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will appear on ABC News’s The View on Tuesday after the Senate passed a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
Schumer, who struck a deal with Senate Republicans, canceled his book tour as he faces outrage from Democrats. In the House, the measure to fund the government passed largely along party lines with a 217-213 vote. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote against it, and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) was the only Democrat to vote in favor of it. In the Senate, 10 Democratic senators voted for the bill, likely under Schumer’s direction.
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg announced during Monday’s episode that the program would host Schumer the next day and revealed what she’d like to discuss with him.
“I’m going to wait — I’m going to wait personally because I want to ask him right when he’s sitting there. Please explain this and why you think this was the better choice because there was no great choice here,” Goldberg said of the continuing resolution. “So when Chuck gets here tomorrow, we can all say to him, ‘Hey. What the hell? Why? Because you freaked out everybody. Explain yourself.’”
Goldberg pitched her own political strategy to Democratic lawmakers, suggesting they lean into being “boring” instead of trying to be “cute,” “funny,” or “quippy.”
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The Washington Examiner confirmed that some members of the Democratic Party are pressuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to primary Schumer in 2028. Schumer has been in the Senate for nearly 26 years and served nine terms in the House before that.