Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has a new target to cut down costs: the US penny. DOGE said on X that the penny costs over 3 cents to make and cost US taxpayers over $179 million ...
Other countries, such as Canada and Australia, have successfully eliminated their lowest denomination coins. The newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have a new penny ...
Getting rid of the penny would be an early test of DOGE's influence: Could it help eliminate a piece of government inefficiency that has survived decades of reform attempts? On Tuesday ...
In a post on X, DOGE criticized how much it costs to produce the penny. The debate over the penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, is decades old. DOGE alone can't take the coin out of ...