A group of 30 tourists stood in the foyer of t Mint on Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by the sparking marble sourced from ...

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As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump is literally pinching pennies, ordering ...

Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation's budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” President Donald Trump pronounced last night on Truth Social, even as he returned to Washington, D.C., from a ...

Representative Mark Amodei has helped to introduce a bill that would change how coins are minted in an effort to make it more ...

President Trump announced on Sunday that he directed the U.S. Treasury Department to halt the minting of new pennies. The ...

The penny’s fate remains uncertain. No executive order has been published regarding the president’s penny directive, and the ...

Around 4.1 billion pennies were circulated in 2023, costing the American taxpayers over $179 million. In 2024, $85 million.

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).