President Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing ...

It is unclear whether Trump has the power to unilaterally eliminate the lowly one-cent coin. Currency specifications — ...

The United States Mint reportedly lost $85.3 million in the 2024 fiscal year that ended in September on the nearly 3.2 billion pennies it produced. Stop minting new pennies – Trump tells US Treasury ...

In a Feb. 9 post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump announced that he had instructed the secretary of the U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies to eliminate waste — producing one penny ...

On Sunday, he posted on Truth Social that he's instructed the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury to stop minting ... New Hampshire, would have changed the metals used to create coins ...

Scrap the cent or keep it; I don’t care. But let the decision be based on sound reasoning, not on gaudy talking points that add nothing to the debate.

Machines that crush pennies into souvenirs may be affected the most by the news the U.S. Treasury Department will stop ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin. “For far too long the ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)(AP/Ben Curtis) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the ...