If your bill comes to 98 cents and you hand the seller a dollar, you expect to get your two cents back. Inflation hit ...

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

President Donald Trump 's decision that the U.S. Department of the Treasury will stop minting new pennies could cost jobs in the heavily Republican county they are currently partly produced in, ...

The penny has been around for almost as long as the United States itself. It survived the Civil War, the Great Depression and decades of politicians complaining that it wasn’t worth the trouble.

President Trump announced Sunday that he is telling the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies, ending a 233-year run of the 1-cent coin. The penny, one of the first coins made by the U.S ...

President Donald Trump is telling the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies, the iconic one-cent copper coin bearing the face of Abraham Lincoln. Shortly after departing Sunday's Super ...

Phrases such as penny for your thoughts or stop being a penny-pincher may have to change — pun intended. President Trump said Sunday he told the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting pennies.

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 ...

Better count your pennies. They may be on the way out the door. President Donald Trump said he has told the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting pennies. The coin has been in circulation for ...

President Trump wants to end production of the penny It takes about 3.7 cents to produce and distribute one penny A 233-year run could be over. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is ...

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.” By Yan Zhuang and Erica L. Green Erica L. Green is a White House ...