Sunny Hostin even went so far as to tell him, point blank, "you caved." The grilling began with moderator Whoopi Goldberg though, who went straight for the controversy at hand in the first segment with Schumer.

Whoopi Goldberg started the discussion off by asking Schumer why he decided to vote for the continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown, and that’s when Schumer went into a full-on diatribe about his rationale and batted away several interruption efforts.

Sen. Chuck Schumer told "The View" he had no plans to step down, despite mounting backlash from members of his own party over his support for a GOP spending bill.