Cost Cutting For The View

We continue with The View’s reported cost cuts, host salaries and Barbara Walters’s original idea for the program. Then we dig into Elon Musk’s tense interview with The Economist, where he describes his political position, defends his government work and disputes claims that USAID cuts cause mass deaths. We examine the interviewer’s pushback, foreign-aid spending, private philanthropy, HIV medicine delivery and the broader fight over deficits and fraud. New Jersey’s admission that a software error improperly registers 6,600 noncitizens moves the conversation back to elections. We connect the registration problem to voter ID, citizenship checks and the SAVE America Act while donations for the bike ride keep climbing. After the break, AOC’s support for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan produces a presidential prediction, a swimming-pool wager and a full review of Haley Stevens’s viral “Michigan way” clip. We test whether socialist candidates can win swing states, using Michigan, Wisconsin and Northampton County as political markers. John Fetterman’s “clown” attack on Zohran Mamdani over Benjamin Netanyahu adds another Democratic split. Shawn Farash joins the crew, James Carville concedes that voter ID is a losing fight for Democrats, and we close by returning to temporary farm labor, strawberries and the economic pressure behind the agriculture bill.