In a renewed offensive, President Donald Trump has intensified his criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, demanding his resignation over a controversial renovation project and advocating for lower interest rates.

President Donald Trump and his allies have seized upon a new way to criticize the head of the US central bank: his handling of an expensive renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters.The construction project offers the clearest example yet of how Trump and those in his orbit are looking for every opportunity to scrutinize Jerome Powell’s leadership at the central bank,