U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell should resign "just like" Fed Governer Adriana Kugler. Trump had earlier said he was firing U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and claimed that the jobs data from this morning was "rigged.

President Donald Trump on Friday called for the Federal Reserve's board of governors to usurp the power of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, criticizing the head of the U.S. central bank for not cutting short-term interest rates.