{"id":33104,"date":"2025-02-12T02:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/democrat-senator-backs-trumps-common-sense-move-to-fire-the-penny\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:11:27","slug":"democrat-senator-backs-trumps-common-sense-move-to-fire-the-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/democrat-senator-backs-trumps-common-sense-move-to-fire-the-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat senator backs Trump’s ‘common sense move’ to fire the penny"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> has found an ally in the Senate, at least on his plan to stop creating new pennies.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jacky Rosen<\/a>, D-Nev., came out in support of Trump’s latest proposal on Tuesday, calling it a “common sense move.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Democrat represents a battleground state that both she and Trump won in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Over the weekend, Trump announced<\/a> that he “instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”<\/p>\n

“For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” the president wrote on Truth Social.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s rip the waste out of our great nation\u2019s budget, even if it\u2019s a penny at a time.”<\/p>\n

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Rosen took to X on Tuesday, writing, “I\u2019m not afraid to embrace a good idea when it comes from the other side of the aisle, and I agree with President Trump on this.”<\/p>\n

“Eliminating the penny is a common sense move that\u2019ll save taxpayer dollars,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She isn’t the only Democrat who has come out in support of Trump’s idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“As well as saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, there are major environmental benefits to eliminating the penny. This is a great move,” Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., said of the president’s plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump’s unlikely Democratic backers come as much of the party has revolted amid his Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to aggressively audit and slash spending at executive branch agencies and departments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump has found an ally in the Senate, at least on his plan to stop creating new pennies. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., came out in support of Trump’s latest proposal on Tuesday, calling it a “common sense move.”\u00a0 The Democrat represents a battleground state that both she and Trump won in 2024.\u00a0 SCOOP: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}