In the wake of the killing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train, The View ’s Whoopi Goldberg urged on Wednesday an end to funding cuts for mental health services and rejected attempts to politicize the tragedy.

The show opened with a clip of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blaming Democratic lawmakers and the media for Zarutska’s death.

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“This monster should have been locked up,” Leavitt said. “But Democrat politicians, liberal judges, and weak prosecutors would rather virtue sign

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