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

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 the ... Margaret Wood, D-New Hampshire, would have changed the metals ...

After Trump ordered the treasury to stop minting pennies, readers weigh the costs ... That same penny can then transfer that same amount of wealth to new recipients with no added production ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 costs ...