With President Donald Trump having instructed the Treasury to cease production of the U.S. penny due to cost concerns, as ...

President Trump’s plan to eliminate the penny could save the government money, but there’s no guarantee. By Ben Blatt President Trump recently ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing pennies ...

There is no sign the U.S. Mint will stop pressing pennies, but Trump's pledge to stop making them is already being felt in ...

Now he has set his sights on the humble penny. The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the coins. That followed an ...

WASHINGTON — When President Trump said Sunday night that he would direct the Treasury to stop producing the penny in order to cut costs, he may have wagered that the increasingly irrelevant ...

(NEXSTAR) — Weeks after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set its sights on the penny, President Donald Trump called on the Treasury Department to stop minting new one-cent coins ...

WASHINGTON – Americans have a message for the penny: Good riddance. Around the country, people of all ages are expressing giddiness, relief ‒ as well as a bit of wistfulness ‒ over ...

In the middle of Super Bowl LIX, President Donald Trump posted on social media that he was getting rid of the penny. Since the lowly penny in 2024 cost about 3.7 cents to make-- meaning the ...

Perhaps the demise of the humble penny, the thinking goes, will eventually bring an end to the melting ban – positioning owners of the coins to cash in on their mountains of cheap copper.

But if President Trump is going to stop production of the penny, he should ban the nickel, too. As penny opponents have noted, it now costs 3.69 cents to produce a single penny, which has barely ...

But he's not forgetting small change, either. Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies with a Feb. 10 sentence on his social media account that followed years of conservatives ...