U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared “there are no guarantees” that Americans won’t face a recession during President Donald Trump’s second term. “Mr. Secretary, can you guarantee the American people here and now that there will be no recession on President Trump’s watch?

An appeals court has denied a Trump administration request to block a district court's ruling that directs it to rehire tens of thousands of federal workers it fired.

The order affects workers at six federal agencies, plus workers who had already been granted relief through an earlier ruling.

An appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request for an immediate stay on a lower court ruling that reinstated thousands of probationary federal employees who had been fired. A three-judge panel on the U.