WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook late Wednesday said she wouldn't leave her post after President Donald Trump on social media called on her to resign over an accusation from one his officials that she committed mortgage fraud.

"I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet," Cook said in a statement issued by the Fed.

Bill Pulte, director of the agency that oversees the Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation mortgage giants otherwise known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, urged the Justice Department to investigate Cook, who was appointed to the Fed's governing board by former President Joe Biden in 2022. She was reappointed the following year to a term that lasts unti

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