The Department of Government Efficiency hinted it may be looking to eliminate the penny. Elon Musk's initiative says production of the coin is costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

According to the U.S. Mint, the cost to produce a single penny jumped 20% during the 2024 fiscal year to 3.69 cents.

Senate DOGE Caucus chair Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has re-upped legislation to cut roughly $2 billion in taxpayer money spent on swag to promote federal agencies. Expenditures in Ernst’s crosshairs went ...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has identified a new priority in its quest to slash federal spending: the humble American penny. In a post on X this Tuesday, DOGE noted that the ...

Trump has put Musk, the world's richest man and the CEO of Tesla, X, and SpaceX, in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, which is not actually a federal agency, but more of a small ...

Trump created DOGE and has given it a mandate to cut government spending. Musk has said that the agency is looking to trim $500 billion in government spending. The penny is worth only 1 cent and its ...

The official X account for DOGE, the reform department headed by billionaire Elon Musk, shared facts about penny production ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), noted that it cost the United States' 3 cents to make a penny.

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

On X, DOGE pointed out the federal government spends more to produce the penny than its worth. But the penny has survived ...

TikTok is making one last appeal to Donald Trump’s ego after the Supreme Court left the app’s fate in his hands.

After originally promising to slash federal funding by $2 trillion using the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk now says that might not be possible. Musk’s promise of cutting ...