The Lincoln one-cent coin could be scrapped, with Trump ordering the Treasury Department and U.S. Mint to stop producing the ...
The U.S. Mint reported losing $85.3 million in the 2024 fiscal year that ended in September on the nearly 3.2 billion pennies ...
President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting the penny, reviving the debate over the future of ...
President Donald Trump said he’s instructed the Secretary of the US Treasury to stop making new pennies, writing that they “literally cost us more than 2 cents.” He’s right — in fact, each US penny ...
President Trump called the minting of the coin a waste of money, reviving a longstanding debate about getting rid of the ...
For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” the president said in a ...
Trump’s halt to minting of pennies won’t harm Arizona copper industryMost copper mined in the U.S. comes from Arizona. But ...
Jerry Petros, the owner of Alliance Coins and Jewelry in Alliance, said the U.S. should have dumped pennies years ago.