It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

Every penny costs 3.7 cents to manufacture and the U.S. Treasury lost $85.3 million in 2024 producing them, the U.S. Mint ...

What did Trump say about pennies? Trump called the coins “wasteful” in that they cost more to produce than they’re worth, in ...

"For far too long the United States has minted pennies, which literally cost us more than 2 cents," Trump wrote in a post to ...

As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump has ordered the end of the penny.

Most copper mined in the U.S. comes from Arizona. But President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that he will halt ...