WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department will start firing more than 1,350 U.S-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its U.S. diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine U.S. interest abroad.

The State Department is set to fire 1,300 staff as Trump, Rubio push sweeping reorganization targeting refugee, human rights, and diplomatic programs.

President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.

The White House appears to be using the Fed's over-budget $2.5 billion headquarters renovation to build a case for removing chair Jerome Powell.