特朗普命令我们造币厂停止赚钱，但是可以吗？

似乎没有什么太大或太小，无法吸引唐纳德·特朗普的注意力，以重新启动美国在他的第二任期内的工作方式

Donald Trump is setting his sights on rebooting the United States in his second term as US president. Nothing appears to be too big or too small to escape his attention, including the humble penny. While it is the lowest denomination of US currency, there are an estimated 240 billion of them and billions more being minted every year.

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）将目光投向了美国总统的第二任期重新启动美国。似乎没有什么太大或太小而无法逃脱他的注意力，包括不起眼的一分钱。尽管这是美国货币的最低面额，但每年估计有2400亿美元的货币和数十亿美元。

However, that growing tally of “copper” coins may come to an end after Trump says he ordered the US Mint to stop making pennies. So, what is his beef with the 1-cent coin that bears the image of Abraham Lincoln?

但是，在特朗普表示命令美国造币厂停止赚钱之后，这种“铜”硬币的成长可能结束。那么，他用亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln）形象的1美分硬币的牛肉是什么？

Trump says minting pennies “is so wasteful!”

特朗普说，铸造便士“太浪费了！”

“Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”

特朗普在他的真相社交平台上的一篇文章中说：“让我们从我们的大国预算中删除浪费。” “很久以来，美国已经铸造了几分钱，这实际上使我们花费了2美分。这太浪费了！我已经指示我的美国财政部长停止生产新的便士。”

Not to be a nitpicker, but it actually cost almost 3.7 cents to produce a penny in 2024 according to an annual report from the US Mint. That was a more than 20% increase over the previous year. Last year was the 19th consecutive year that it has cost more to produce a 1-cent coin than its actually face value.

根据美国造币厂的年度报告，在2024年生产一分钱实际上要花几乎3.7美分的价格，但实际上要花近3.7美分。这比上一年增长了20％以上。去年是连续第19年，生产1美分硬币的成本要高于其实际面值。

What is driving up the price of making pennies? Among the reasons, while only 2.5% of a penny is made of copper these days, the rest is zinc, the price of the former raw material has been increasing. Average copper prices were up 5.4% in the 2024 fiscal year states the US Mint to a little more than $8,889 per tonne.

是什么推动了赚钱的价格？在原因中，虽然这些天只有2.5％的一分钱是由铜制成的，但其余的是锌，前原料的价格一直在上涨。在2024财政年度，美国造币厂的平均铜价上涨了5.4％，至每吨8,889美元以上。

One of my (many) failures in govt was not getting rid of the penny. I tried—with President Obama publicly supporting the effort—and failed.(Personally would go further & shift to a single decimal currency with new penny’s as 1 cent & new nickels as 5.)https://t.co/tGmv0PfTWs

我的（许多）政府失败之一并没有摆脱一分钱。我尝试 - 奥巴马总统公开支持这项工作 - 并且失败了。

Trump isn’t the first to want to get rid of the penny

特朗普不是第一个想摆脱一分钱的人

There have been calls from both Democrats and Republican politicians for decades to retire the US penny. However, inertia has kept the US Mint pumping out billions of the copper-plated coins to keep enough in circulation.

数十年来，民主党和共和党政客都打电话来退休美国便士。但是，惯性使美国造币厂抽出数十亿枚铜币，以保持足够的循环。

Despite there being nearly a quarter trillion of them floating around, over 720 for every man, woman and child in the US, most are kept in coin jars. Those who pay with cash will rarely use them at the check-out but expect to receive them as change and then just hold onto them. For the US Mint’s sake, they would prefer the vast majority stay in those coin jars as it would be “logistically unmanageable” if a modest portion of them were suddenly back in circulation.

尽管它们有将​​近四分之一万亿美元在美国，每个男人，女人和儿童都超过720，但大多数人都被保存在硬币罐中。那些用现金付款的人很少在退房时使用它们，但希望将它们作为更改而收到，然后抓住它们。为了美国造币厂的缘故，他们更喜欢绝大多数在这些硬币罐中留下来，因为如果其中的一部分突然回到流通，那将是“逻辑上不可管理的”。

While the feasibility of Trump’s proposal is being examined, whether he has the authority or he’ll need Congressional approval, there are other examples of countries close to home that have done away with their pennies. Canada began phasing out 1-cent coins in 2012 and required cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest five-cent increment.

尽管正在审查特朗普提议的可行性，但无论他拥有权威还是需要国会的批准，还有其他一些在家附近的国家的例子消除了他们的便士。加拿大在2012年开始逐步淘汰1美分的硬币，并要求将现金交易舍入至最近的五美分增量。

The downside to that for the US is that making the nickel the lowest denomination coin for cash transactions would most likely be even more expensive than the penny problem. It would necessitate minting more of them as demand would most likely surge and it costs almost 14 cents to make each nickel according to the US Mint, nearly 9 cents more than their face value.

对于美国来说，不利的一面是，将镍作为现金交易的最低面额硬币很可能比一分钱问题更昂贵。根据需求的需求极有可能激增，这将需要更多的造币，并且按照美国造币厂的价格将每种镍制成近14美分，比其面值高出近9美分。