Trump admin updates: White House asks court to stay deportation flights TRO

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he could not guarantee that there would be no recession as Trump’s trade policies go into effect.

“You know that there are no guarantees, like, who would have predicted COVID, right?” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “So, I can predict that we are putting in robust policies that will be durable. And could there be an adjustment, because I tell you, this massive government spending that we'd had that if that had kept going, we have to wean our country off of that, and on the other side, we are going to invigorate the private sector.”

“I had a meeting with small bankers last week, and they are ready to start lending, and I can tell you that Main Street is going to do well,” Bessent said.

-ABC News’ Hannah Demissie

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizens pursuant to his recent proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act.

Less than two hours after the president attempted to invoke the 18th century law to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens currently in custody pursuant to the president's recent proclamation.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders, Armando Garcia, Emily Chang and Peter Charalambous

Despite a federal judge halting the administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport five migrants, the White House announced Saturday that it had done so in order to deport Venezuelan migrants.

Trump alleged this was done to target alleged members of the Tren De Aragua gang.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders

Lawyers with the Department of Justice asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to enter an administrative stay of the lower court's temporary restraining order, which blocks the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport noncitizens.

"This Court should halt this massive, unauthorized imposition on the Executive’s authority to remove dangerous aliens who pose threats to the American people," the filing said.

The government argued that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg overstepped his authority, declined to hear a response from the Trump administration before ruling and is "setting the stage to potentially inject itself into all such removals nationwide."

Boasberg previously oversaw the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and was nominated to federal judicial roles by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous