‘I Want an Opposition Party!’ The View SCREAM at Dems for Reopening Gov.

Overnight, a small group of Democrats proved that their party was in the driver’s seat of the longest U.S. government shutdown by crossing the aisle and voting with Republicans to reopen the government. The multimillionaires of ABC News’s The View were so bitter about federal workers getting paid and SNAP recipients getting food that they were raging and screaming into the cameras. The majority were angry over Democrats giving up their political leverage against Republicans following their electoral victories last week. One of them even shouted: “I want an opposition party!”

At the top of the show, moderator Whoopi Goldberg tacitly admitted that it was Democrats who were holding out during the government shutdown, and whined that “eight senate Democrats threw in the towel by siding with the GOP to advance a vote that could lead to the government reopening.”

Despite those eight Democrats proving that the left was the group digging their heels in and shutting down the government, co-host Sunny Hostin was desperate to keep the false narrative (that Republicans were responsible) going:

Let’s be clear. The Republicans run the House. The Republicans run the Senate. The Republicans run the White House. The Republicans run the Supreme Court, as far as I’m concerned. This was a choice by Republicans to cut snap benefits! This was a choice Republicans to cut ACA subsidies! This was a choice by the Republicans to gut the federal government and federal employment! Democrats had nothing to do with it.

“I want an opposition party!” screamed Hostin, herself a multimillionaire. “I think the Democrats caved! I think the Democrats let down the American people!”

Hostin, who didn’t need to worry about putting food on her table, started shouting “shame” at Democrats:

You know, you do something like this. Shame on you the first time. You do it twice, three times, four time, shame on me. Shame on the Democrats for even believing that the Republicans will, you know, even vote on it! There’s no guarantee in this new deal. That there’s going to be a vote. There’s no even commitment to have a vote. So, the bottom line is the Democrats went into a after a blue wave, the American people saying we do want to opposition. We – The working people want the Democratic Party to fight for them. And now they just caved and surrendered.

“I think Chuck Schumer, his days are over! If he cannot keep his caucus together – If he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go, he needs to be replaced,” Hostin declared, proving herself to be the more outraged on the set.

Pretend independent Sara Haines tried to take the counter position that it was better to reopen the government because people where suffering and couldn’t feed their families, and that Democratic opposition wasn’t actually helping anyone. Hostin jumped down her throat (Click “expand”):

HAINES: I disagree with you Sunny for this reason. What you rattled off. The Republicans run the executive branch, the legislative, the judicial according to you. They have all the power right now. The problem here is it’s a privilege to say, ‘our food’s not affected, our health insurance.

[Crosstalk]

HOSTIN: There are people in my family that receive SNAP benefits!

HAINES: I’m not saying – I’m not meaning family. We’re all effected by – as we go out.

I’m saying right here to say it’s a privilege that they don’t have healthcare and now they don’t have food. The people are struggling so much, our food banks all week in our towns were at the food bank. We were delivering non-stop and kept getting notifications ‘they’re empty again,’ ‘they’re empty again.’

Opposition? People can vote in a blue wave and say but opposition, when you have no power, is not helping us at all! They need food on the table. We need our flights back up in the air. The holidays are coming. People can’t afford Christmas.

HOSTIN: The Republican Party should have done it!

If Hostin really did have family members on SNAP, why wasn’t she using her millions to help her family out? In 2023, she took the side of subway menace Jordan Neely and claimed she would have given him all her money freely; and tired to say the other passengers had no humanity in them.

Hostin and fake Republican Ana Navarro teamed up to use incendiary rhetoric against Trump and Republicans that could incite even more assassination attempts against those on the right, suggesting the right was okay with people dying without healthcare:

NAVARRO: If people lose insurance, if people drop out of insurance, not only will it be the death of Obamacare, it will be the death of Americans! Because people will not go get screenings. People will get diagnosed with later stages of cancer and this will cost lives! And we must demand better starting with Donald Trump!

[Crosstalk]

HOSTIN: And we’re not going to get better, because with Donald Trump the cruelty is the point! He does not care! It’s a Republican choice!

Hostin would go one to monopolize more of their airtime by insisting that the solution for federal workers who were drawing on their savings was to pursue expensive and drawn out legal battles. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin clapped back by noting that SNAP recipients couldn’t put food on their tables:

HOSTIN: So, the fact that the Democrats traded in their vote to get federal workers working again is ludicrous! Let the courts do their job! Go through courts and let the courts do their job!

FARAH GRIFFIN: No, it’s to get SNAP benefits out! People can’t eat. People can’t afford the holidays.

Goldberg ended the segment by touting how Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who was one of the Democrats who voted with Republicans, would be on the show the next day and how it gave them the opportunity to attack him.

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
November 10, 2025
11:02:29 a.m. Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, let us tell you what’s been going on. The biggest sticking point in the longest U.S. government shutdown has been Democrats demanding that Republicans negotiate to extend healthcare subsidies that are about to expire. But last night, eight senate Democrats threw in the towel by siding with the GOP to advance a vote that could lead to the government reopening and they tried to explain themselves to their unhappy colleagues.

(…)

11:03:45 a.m. Eastern

GOLDBERG: So, I mean, you know. 50-50 chance of negotiating healthcare subsidies. I just remember all of the people who are coming in and hoping that people would vote them in and say, ‘yes, you can be this person, you can be judge or you can be this.’ And they all said, ‘no, we’re not going to mess with anything. We’re going to leave everything as it was.’ I have no faith they’re not going to negotiate and come back to the table.

And, you know, I’m glad that folks may be – because again, we have seen, you say this is going to happen and then it doesn’t happen. So, surprise me and show me that this is really that people are going to get their money. That people are going to get the money that they are entitled to. It’s not a gift. They’re entitled to this money during the shutdown, when there’s a shutdown. You’re entitle today that money.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. There’s a contingency fund for that.

GOLDBERG: This idea that they’re giving in and giving this as a gift, it’s not a gift. You know. I don’t understand.

So, is he right that Americans wanted Democrats to keep fighting. This would — and you know, people will get rehired supposedly. Federal workers and reinstate SNAP benefits but a 50-50 chance of extending the subsidies, I don’t believe it.

(…)

11:06:46 a.m. Eastern

HOSTIN: Let’s be clear. The Republicans run the House. The Republicans run the Senate. The Republicans run the White House. The Republicans run the Supreme Court, as far as I’m concerned. This was a choice by Republicans to cut snap benefits! This was a choice Republicans to cut ACA subsidies! This was a choice by the Republicans to gut the federal government and federal employment! Democrats had nothing to do with it.

I want an opposition party! I think the Democrats caved! I think the Democrats let down the American people! And like you, Whoopi, I have absolutely no faith that the Republican Party will come to the negotiating table in good faith.

You know, you do something like this. Shame on you the first time. You do it twice, three times, four time, shame on me. Shame on the Democrats for even believing that the Republicans will, you know, even vote on it! There’s no guarantee in this new deal. That there’s going to be a vote. There’s no even commitment to have a vote. So, the bottom line is the Democrats went into a after a blue wave, the American people saying we do want to opposition. We – The working people want the Democratic Party to fight for them. And now they just caved and surrendered.

I think Chuck Schumer, his days are over! If he cannot keep his caucus together – If he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go, he needs to be replaced.

SARA HAINES: I disagree with you Sunny for this reason. What you rattled off. The Republicans run the executive branch, the legislative, the judicial according to you. They have all the power right now. The problem here is it’s a privilege to say, ‘our food’s not affected, our health insurance.

[Crosstalk]

HOSTIN: There are people in my family that receive SNAP benefits!

HAINES: I’m not saying – I’m not meaning family. We’re all effected by – as we go out.

I’m saying right here to say it’s a privilege that they don’t have healthcare and now they don’t have food. The people are struggling so much, our food banks all week in our towns were at the food bank. We were delivering non-stop and kept getting notifications ‘they’re empty again,’ ‘they’re empty again.’

Opposition? People can vote in a blue wave and say but opposition, when you have no power, is not helping us at all! They need food on the table. We need our flights back up in the air. The holidays are coming. People can’t afford Christmas.

HOSTIN: The Republican Party should have done it!

(…)

11:11:12 a.m. Eastern

ANA NAVARRO: …while he [Trump] refuses to fund SNAP benefits and you know what we are doing with this deal?! We are changing one group of suffering American, the federal workers and the SNAP benefits, for another one! Because people have no idea how much they’re going to need to pay for health insurance! The premiums have gone out and they are up 100, 200, almost 300 percent in some cases.

If people lose insurance, if people drop out of insurance, not only will it be the death of Obamacare, it will be the death of Americans! Because people will not go get screenings. People will get diagnosed with later stages of cancer and this will cost lives! And we must demand better starting with Donald Trump!

[Crosstalk]

HOSTIN: And we’re not going to get better, because with Donald Trump the cruelty is the point! He does not care! It’s a Republican choice!

The last thing I’ll say about the federal workers, there’s a 2019 law that requires the federal government to pay federal workers!

GOLDBERG: You must! It’s the law!

HOSTIN: It’s the law! So, the fact that the Democrats traded in their vote to get federal workers working again is ludicrous! Let the courts do their job! Go through courts and let the courts do their job!

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: No, it’s to get SNAP benefits out! People can’t eat. People can’t afford the holidays.

(…)