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

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.” ...

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 ...

Elon Musk's DOGE is taking aim at the U.S. penny, pointing out that it costs more to manufacture than it's worth.

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 ...

The president could promptly end the production of new pennies, but phasing out the coin would take time and mean changes at ...

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).

The DOGE social media account claims only about $2 billion, with another $4 billion from cutting medical research funds.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced on social media platform Truth Social he has directed the Treasury Department to stop producing new pennies, saying. “For far too long the United States has ...

For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! Trump wrote on Truth Social.