Friday Politics Roundup | House GOP goes after the poor and climate; gun violence; Rutgers strike; Lower Merion restricts guns; satellite crashes; Starship goes boom

<p>GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy announced his <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/19/debt-ceiling-limit-republican-plan-explained/'>party’s demands in the latest round of public hostage-taking around the nation’s debt ceiling</a>. McCarthy and House republicans are calling for massive cuts to social programs, the elimination of the student-loan debt forgiveness plan, new work requirements for welfare recipients, cuts funds for improving the IRS, repeals green energy programs and incentives, and takes back any unspent COVID funds. </p> <p>It seems that flooding our communities with guns and stoking fear, hate, and misinformation on conservative media is producing a new form of gun violence. This week, <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/us/yarl-gillis-shooting-missouri-ny.html'>several young people were shot - and some killed - as they accidentally knocked on the wrong door or mistakenly got into the wrong car</a>. This is the culture of vigilantism that conservatives funded by the NRA and the gun industry have been grooming us for. </p> <p>In Liberty, MO, Ralph Yarl, a 16 year old African American kid, who was going to pick up his sister, but knocked on the wrong door. He was nearly killed.</p> <p>In Fort Edward, NY, Kaylin Gillis, a 20 year old white woman, was looking for a friend’s house and mistakenly drove up the wrong driveway. She was shot and killed.</p> <p>In Elgin, Texas, Two competitive cheerleaders, Heather Roth and Payton Washington, were shot after mistakenly getting into the wrong car. Roth suffered a grazing wound while Washington was sent to a hospital in critical condition. </p> <p>According to new reporting in Politico, <a href='https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/rutgers-faculty-unions-contract-strike-00093159'>the Rutgers University faculty unions are considering getting back on the picket lines</a> because the administration is dragging its feet in finalizing their “framework deal” that led the unions to suspend their historic weeklong strike. It was the