Tipsheet: Trump heads to Iowa as 2024 chatter grows

View in your browser     Trump heads to Iowa as 2024 chatter grows By Max Greenwood and Tal Axelrod   Donald Trump is sending the clearest signals yet that he’s planning another presidential run in 2024 as he heads to Iowa for a rally this weekend. The Saturday event in the first-in-the-nation caucus state is the latest sign the former president is gearing up for a third White House bid as he also doles out midterm endorsements, hires aides in places like Iowa and boasts in media interviews of what he sees as a glide path to victory in a 2024 GOP primary. Read the full story here     McConnell vows GOP won't help raise debt ceiling in December after Schumer 'tantrum' By Jordain Carney   Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) warned President Biden on Friday that Republicans won't help raise the debt ceiling later this year, and stated that a recent speech by Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) had "poisoned the well." Read the full story here     Biden formally commits US to 125,000 refugees in coming fiscal year By Rebecca Beitsch   President Biden on Friday signed a declaration committing the U.S. to accept up to 125,000 refugees for the coming fiscal year, formalizing an earlier promise that allows funds to be released to help resettle them. Read the full story here     Biden says jobs figures represent 'steady progress' By Sylvan Lane and Morgan Chalfant   President Biden on Friday described the September jobs report as a sign of steady progress in the United States' economic recovery amid the coronavirus pandemic. Read the full story here       White House orders release of Trump records to Jan. 6 committee By Rebecca Beitsch and Morgan Chalfant   The White House has ordered presidential record keepers to release a trove of Trump-era documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, arguing unique circumstances compel their disclosure. Read the full story here     White House links Biden's bad polling to pandemic By Brett Samuels   White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday attributed a series of tough poll results for President Biden to the nation's inability to fully overcome the coronavirus pandemic. Read the full story here     Ilhan Omar to Biden: 'Deliver on your promise to cancel student debt' By Aris Folley   Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called on President Biden to release to the public information he previously requested from Education Secretary Miguel Cardona regarding his legal authority to cancel student loan debt. Read the full story here     Appeals court temporarily reinstates Texas abortion law By Caroline Vakil   A U.S. court of appeals temporarily reinstated Texas's six-week abortion law, issuing an administrative stay of a preliminary injunction granted earlier this week by a federal judge that blocked the controversial law's implementation. Read the full story here     US to meet with Taliban representatives in Qatar: reports By Caroline Vakil   A delegation of U.S. officials will meet with Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, this weekend, the first face-to-face meeting between officials on both sides since the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in late August, several news outlets reported. Read the full story here     Facebook products went offline again for some users By Chris Mills Rodrigo   Facebook and its apps were inaccessible for some users Friday afternoon, less than a week after the social media network was offline for roughly five hours. Read the full story here     The parts of Manchin's voting act you haven't heard about By Trevor Potter and Donald Ayer   OPINION | In September, a group of key Senate Democrats led by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), introduced a serious commonsense piece of legislation aimed at making our electoral system work better in targeted ways that deserve bipartisan support. Read the full story here     The 'kicking ourselves when we're down' century By Kevin Erdmann   OPINION | We have become a nation in search of second-best alternatives. How so? Here’s a recent example from San Francisco. A beloved local taqueria, El Farolito, couldn’t open a new location because it now had enough locations to qualify as a chain, and chain restaurants are banned in parts of the city. The law ended up hurting a restaurant to which it probably wasn’t intended to apply, causing the story to hit the papers. But is it really any less ridiculous to ban residents from eating at a Taco Bell? Read the full story here     NBC News: Republicans say McConnell 'blinked' on debt ceiling to save the filibuster By Sahil Kapur, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Frank Thorp V   WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to save the filibuster. And he did. For now. Read the full story here     CNN: Brazil passes grim milestone of 600,000 Covid-19 deaths, second only to US By Jennifer Deaton and Sheena McKenzie, and Reuters   Brazil on Friday surpassed the grim milestone of 600,000 Covid-19 deaths, the second-highest number of fatalities in the world after the United States, according to John Hopkins University data. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Global supply-chain problems escalate, threatening economic recovery By Chuin-Wei Yap, William Boston and Alistair MacDonald   Global supply-chain bottlenecks are feeding on one another, with shortages of components and surging prices of critical raw materials squeezing manufacturers around the world. The supply shocks are already showing signs of choking off the recovery in some regions. Read the full story here     Bloomberg: Ambani joins Bezos, Musk in world’s exclusive $100 billion club By Alexander Sazonov   Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest person, joined Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the world’s most exclusive wealth club with a fortune of at least $100 billion. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Justice Dept. won’t pursue federal charges against Wis. officer in Jacob Blake shooting By David Nakamura   The Justice Department said Friday that it would not seek federal criminal civil rights charges against police officer Rusten Sheskey of Kenosha, Wis., in the shooting of a Black man last summer that reignited social-justice protests. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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