Democrat Colorado Gov. Jared Police praised President Trump for directing the Treasury to stop production of penny.
“There are huge environmental benefits to not only saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, but eliminating pennies. This is a great move,” Police wrote in X.
Police, 49, claimed in another post that producing copper-plated zinc pennies “has low air quality and leads to large-scale extraction of major minerals.”
“Let’s take this step to save taxpayers’ money, meet consumer needs and better protect the environment,” he added.
The Democratic governor has been calling for Penny to be eliminated even before Trump took office.
In December, Police tagged the president’s Director of Government Efficiency Elon Musk in the X-Post, highlighting the potential for annual savings in the nine-digit range if penny production ceased.
“If you eliminate pennies, you save more than $300,000,000 a year (all pennies cost more than 3 cents) and if you replace your dollar bill with dollar coins, you save more than $1 billion in a decade,” the governor said. I insisted.
According to US Mint, the manufacturing cost of penny was around 3.7 cents in 2024.
The penny stampout is the latest in Trump’s post-election move, which earned police support.
Last November, Police interim supporters of Trump’s picks, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Governor Centennial also ordered the flag to be raised in honor of Trump’s inauguration and ignored a half-price order from former President Joe Biden in honor of the late former President Jimmy Carter.
Police has also shown support for Trump’s plan to “securing borders, stop human trafficking, and stop illegal flows of guns and drugs.”
“We welcome more federal help, detain and deport dangerous criminals,” Police said in a state speech last month.
But the 78-year-old Trump denounced police for handling immigrant gangs in Venezuela in Colorado, calling the governor “scary” and “chicken-T” last October.
