The U.S. economy added 228,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate stayed roughly even at 4.2 percent, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department.

The monthly federal jobs report showed the labor market holding strong in March after another month of rising concern about the impact of President Trump's economic agenda and major cut to the federal workforce.

March employment data came in well above economists' expectations of 135,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent, according to consensus estimates.

The report also showed a slight decline in federal government employment of just 40,000 jobs, far fewer than the more than

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