Trump orders US Treasury to stop minting pennies
President says coins cost too much but activists blame US Mint’s accounting
Donald Trump announced on February 9 he had ordered the US Treasury to stop minting the penny.
“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” the US president said on his Truth Social platform. “Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations [sic] budget, even if it’s a penny at a time.”
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), an unofficial US government unit headed by Elon Musk, had posted on X in support of the measure on
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