“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg admonished congressional Democrats on Tuesday over their public debate about whether to support Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., as party leaders.
“This is my two cents,” Goldberg said, after the show played several clips of Democrats discussing their leadership opinions. “I don’t want to hear this from you right now. I want to know what all of you are, all of you Democrats, what are your plans for the first 100 days? I don’t care if you’ve been there forever or just got there. What are your plans?”
Goldberg suggested several priorities for Democrats, including lowering gas and grocery prices, restoring funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and reuniting separated families.
“We put you in there to clean house, to make sure that the government works the way the people want it to work,” Goldberg said. “I don’t want to hear all this infighting because then you become the distraction, and then you become no better than the Republicans were. So just get your stuff together. All of you.”
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Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin predicted Jeffries would become the next House speaker and said only the “far left” was questioning his leadership. She also argued that Schumer “should go the way of Nancy Pelosi.”
Griffin argued Schumer should declare victory after helping recruit and elect several Democratic candidates, then step aside for a new generation of leaders.
Sunny Hostin, who previously criticized Schumer and called for his removal in November 2025, suggested he should remain in leadership and become Senate Majority Leader.
“I mean, Chuck Schumer led and made sure there wasn’t a government shutdown. He did whip up, he kept the Democratic caucus together,” Hostin said during the show on Tuesday. “He got all of these wonderful candidates. Why not let him lead the party because he knows how to do it? My fear is you get someone in that’s new, that doesn’t really know what they’re doing, doesn’t know how to deal with Trump, doesn’t know how to build a consensus.”
Several incoming Democratic senators have said they will not support Schumer for party leader, including Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton and Sen.-elect Troy Jackson.
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Other Democrats, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have called for a “conversation” about the party’s leadership.
Schumer’s and Jeffries’ offices did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Democratic strategist Kaivan Shroff told Fox News Digital in a statement, “Whoopi is right about the scale of this. Democrats just got handed a mandate to make people’s lives better, not to turn the first month into an internal dispute about Chuck Schumer. If members think he should go, say why, vote, and move on.”
However, Schroff said, “At the same time, ‘stop the infighting’ cannot become code for ‘nobody challenges the old guard.’”
“Of course Schumer deserves credit for some of these wins and the overall strategy,” he continued. “Let’s be honest, even many Dem insiders didn’t think the blue wave would be this big and Schumer and Jeffries absolutely deserve credit. At the same time, Democrats just elected a younger, more restless coalition, so the old leadership should expect to be questioned. That’s normal.”
Goldberg issued a warning to Democrats last week after the party swept in the midterm elections and will take back control of the House and the Senate in January.
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“A note to the Democrats, we put you in to take care of business. We don’t want to know what your back-biting fighting is, we don’t want to hear it,” Goldberg said. “You can kvetch at each other after you take care of the people’s business.”
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During Tuesday’s episode, Goldberg said she didn’t want to know their “business,” and didn’t want to hear them fighting.
“The Democrats need to get their stuff together and we don’t need to know your business,” she said. “Handle your business.”
