The American secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, was sentenced to the production of the play to a penny known as Penny, said President Donald Trump in a publication on his social networks account on Sunday.
“For too long, the United States has had sub-frappes that have literally cost us more than 2 hundred. It is so a waste! I asked my American Treasury Secretary to stop producing new cents”, wrote Trump.
“Let us tear down the waste of the budget of our great nation, even if it is a penny at a time,” he added.
Le Penny was issued by the government for the first time in 1793. Since 1909, the profile of President Abraham Lincoln has been adorned the obverse side of the zinc and copper medal.
A debate has been rumbling for years to find out if Le Penny should be abandoned from the American currency range. “We also drop the money and the nickels while we are there,” said a comment from the economist in 2013 Henry Aaron writing for the publication of the left of the Brookings Institution.
“Life would be simpler without these monetary trash,” he wrote.
Penny supporters have argued that it helps maintain consumer prices and is a source of income for charitable organizations.
For many Americans, however, the medal has become a nuisance that ends up being thrown into the drawers, the ash trays and the stems.
If Le Penny was to be put back, an idea would simply be to make the last figure of all prices a zero.