Trump orders Treasury to stop minting pennies. How much copper is in a penny? Here's how much it cost to mint a penny.

President Donald Trump said he wants to end the production of pennies, calling them “wasteful.” Each coin costs 3.7 cents to ...

U.S. laws give Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent the authority to make the coins he “decides are necessary to meet the ...

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

Can he do that? It’s not clear. But President Trump is right when he says that pennies “literally cost us more than 2 cents.” ...

Why does Trump want to stop minting the penny? The coin now costs more than two cents to produce, Trump stated in a post on ...

President Donald Trump’s mission to slash federal spending has taken an odd turn as he revealed that the Treasury has been ...

President Trump said he wants the U.S. Treasury to stop making pennies. Can he do a penny drop? Does it need Congressional ...

President Trump on Sunday announced that he asked the Treasury Department to stop producing pennies, calling the one cent coin wasteful. He said in a Truth Social post that he told Treasury ...

President 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 United States has minted ...

In a Truth Social post, Trump pointed out that the minting of a penny costs more than the actual value of the coin.