U.S. job growth picked up in February and the unemployment rate edged up to 4.1%, but growing uncertainty over trade policy and deep federal government spending cuts could erode the labor market's resilience in the months ahead.

The US added 151,000 jobs in February, while the unemployment rate edged up to 4.1 per cent from 4 per cent the month before in the first jobs report of President Donald Trump’s second term, according