Common 'cents': Long Island businesses like Trump's plan to end penny production
Freshly made pennies sit in a bin at the U.S. Mint in 2007. Credit: AP/David Zalubowski
To them, it just makes cents.
Some members of Long Island's business community expressed support Monday for a directive from President Donald Trump telling the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting the one-cent coin.
"For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!" Trump said in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. "I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies."
Robert Brodsky is a breaking news reporter who has worked at Newsday since 2011. He is a Queens College and American University alum.
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