Sen. John Fetterman, one of the eight Democrats to join Senate Republicans in passing a government funding deal, defended the move as he joined ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday.

“When you’re confronting mass, mass chaos, you know, I don’t think you should respond with more chaos, or fight with more chaos,” Fetterman said. “It’s like, no, we need to be the party of order and logic.”

Fetterman added, “I refuse to weaponize the SNAP benefit for 42 million Americans, you know, that rely on feeding themselves and their family, or making flying in America, you know, less safe, or I refuse not to pay our military and all of the unions attached to all of this and people. So for me, like, it’s like, I don’t — I don’t agree with that tactic to respond to circumstances that we’re confronting on this.”

Amid Democrat infighting after the Senate vote, Fetterman said the party has to “have the ability to agree to disagree on some of these core issues right now.”

“It’s like reasonable Democrats can disagree on certain kinds of core things, but I hope we could all agree that chaos is the wrong response, or the kinds of chaos that our nation has been in after the president’s reelection,” Fetterman said.