A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the U.S. government to forbid Central American immigrants from seeking asylum at the two busiest stretches of the southern border in a partial legal victory for the Trump administration.

A sea of red ink may make it politically difficult for President Trump and Congress to use the traditional tools for stimulating growth if a recession kicks in sometime next year. Cutting taxes and increasing spending are seen as ways of stimulating the economy to recover from a recession,