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

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 ...

Data from the U.S. Treasury shows that it costs nearly 4 cents to produce a single penny and nearly 14 cents to produce a ...

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.” ...

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

President Donald Trump promised to penny pinch the federal budget if re-elected. Turns out he meant that literally.

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

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

Only tradition explains our stubborn attachment to the penny. But sometimes traditions get ridiculous,” the Farmers’ Almanac ...

President Donald Trump announced that the United States would cease minting pennies, calling the coin “wasteful.” “For far ...

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