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Treasury Division to halt penny manufacturing after centuries in circulation

Editorial Board Published May 22, 2025
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FOX Enterprise’ Lydia Hu reviews on the Division of Authorities Effectivity’s newest plan to chop spending throughout an look on ‘Varney & Co.’

The U.S. authorities is phasing out manufacturing of the penny, which has been in circulation for hundreds of years, in a cost-cutting transfer that’s projected to save lots of $56 million every year.

The Treasury made its closing order of clean pennies this month and can cease placing one-cent cash into circulation by early 2026. As pennies fade from use, companies might want to spherical up or all the way down to the closest 5 cents, The Wall Road Journal reported.

‘MAKES SENSE’: GOP, DEMS UNITE BEHIND TRUMP’S PLAN TO FIRE THE PENNY

By halting manufacturing of the penny, the U.S. Mint – the coin-producing bureau of the Treasury – tasks an instantaneous annual financial savings of $56 million in diminished materials prices. Within the final 10 years, the price of making the cash has risen from a little bit over 1 cent to just about 4 cents per penny, a spokesperson for the Treasury Division informed FOX Enterprise.

A pile of US pennies is seen on this photograph illustration in Washington, DC, February 10, 2025.  (SAUL LOEB/AFP  / Getty Photos)

The transfer is a part of an ongoing bipartisan effort to discontinue manufacturing of the coin. In February, President Donald Trump introduced plans to halt manufacturing of pennies, which price greater than their worth to mint.

TRUMP’S PENNY POLICY: IT MAKES SENSE TO STOP MAKING CENTS

“For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”

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The Treasury Constructing in Washington, D.C., is the headquarters of the USA of America Division of the Treasury. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto / Getty Photos)

This 12 months, two bipartisan payments to do away with the penny had been launched.

HOW TRUMP MIGHT GET RID OF THE PENNY — AND WHAT COULD COME NEXT FOR YOUR POCKET CHANGE

In Could, Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., proposed the Make Sense Not Cents Act, which argues that producing pennies results in taxpayer waste. In April, Reps. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Robert Garcia, D-Calif., alongside Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., launched the Widespread Cents Act.

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a Home Republicans Convention assembly on the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Allison Robbert-Pool / Getty Photos)

Whereas Congress decides forex specs like the dimensions and steel content material of cash, the Treasury has the ability to halt the manufacturing of recent cash.

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There are round 114 billion pennies presently in circulation within the U.S., however they’re underutilized. The penny was one of many first cash created by the U.S. Mint after it was established in 1792.

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