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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that 83% of the programs at USAID are being terminated.

"The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States," he posted on X. "In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department."

"Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform," he added. The shoutout to the Department of Government Efficiency comes after reports of a clash between Rubio and Elon Musk at a Cabinet meeting last week.

Markets tumbled last week during President Trump's whiplash moves on tariffs on Canada and Mexico. More tariffs on steel and aluminum products are set to go into effect on Wednesday, and early next month "reciprocal" tariffs on other nations.

Asked directly if he'd expect a recession this year during an interview that aired on Fox Sunday Morning Futures, Trump declined to rule it out.

"I hate to predict things like that," he said. "There is a period of transition, because what we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth back to America."

Trump was pressed further on his response during a gaggle with reporters on Air Force One on Sunday evening. "Of course, you hesitate. Who knows? All I know is this, we're going to take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we're going to become so rich you're not going to know when to spend all that money," he said.

President Donald Trump spoke with reporters on Air Force One while traveling back from Palm Beach, Florida, to Washington, D.C. where he defended tariffs -- saying they will be the "greatest thing we've ever done as a country."

"It's going to make our country rich again. We have many companies as you know, auto companies are opening up lands now. We've had four or five announced already, but many more are coming, and we're basically going to take back the money, a lot of the money that we've given away over many decades," Trump said.

The president suggested that tariffs are beneficial for job creation and factory returns to the United States, citing the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing plants.

Trump was also asked if he would resume aid to Ukraine if the minerals deal is signed, but he refrained from a definitive answer.

“Well, I think they will sign the minerals deal,” Trump said. “I want them to want peace.”

Trump claimed that Ukraine hasn’t shown that, and it’ll become evident over the next two or three days.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

Health and Human Services employees were offered voluntary buyouts on Friday to resign from their jobs, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Nearly 80,000 federal workers, primarily civilian employees of HHS -- including those from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration -- received an offer for a "voluntary separation incentive payment" of up to $25,000 with a deadline to respond by March 14.

The offer follows a directive from President Donald Trump's administration that drastically reduced the size of the federal workforce. According to a memo issued by the Office of Personnel Management last month, all federal agencies are set to begin preparations for large-scale layoffs and restructuring by March 13.

-ABC News' Mark Abdelmalek and Kelsey Walsh