推动从循环中清除便士

促使唐纳德·特朗普总统在超级碗中拉开的流通的努力最终取决于国会

President Donald Trump's push to eliminate pennies from circulation, which he highlighted during the Super Bowl, ultimately hinges on the decision of Congress. Despite several attempts to discontinue the 232-year-old coin, beginning with a proposal during President Gerald Ford's administration, Congress has consistently shown reluctance to cancel the penny.

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统竭尽全力从超级碗期间强调的节目中消除便士，最终取决于国会的决定。尽管几次试图停止这名232年历史的硬币，这是从杰拉尔德·福特（Gerald Ford）总统政府期间提出的提案开始的，但国会一直表明不愿取消便士。

While there is a growing movement to eliminate the penny, with fewer Americans using it in everyday transactions, there are both economic and sentimental arguments in favor of preserving the 1-cent piece, including appeals from companies involved in producing the nation's currency.

虽然越来越多的运动来消除一分钱，但在日常交易中使用了较少的美国人，但既有经济和感性的论点，都支持保留1美分的作品，包括来自参与生产该国货币的公司的上诉。

To date, numerous bills aimed at halting penny production have languished in both the House and Senate in recent decades.

迄今为止，近几十年来，众议院和参议院都陷入困境。

The latest proposal, introduced last week, is led by Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., following the efforts of previous Arizona lawmakers like the late Reps. Jim Kolbe and John McCain.

上周提出的最新提案是由R-Ariz。众议员David Schweikert领导的，此前是阿里桑那州议员（如已故的众议员吉姆·科尔贝（Jim Kolbe）和约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain））的努力。

However, unlike their proposals, Schweikert's bill would temporarily halt the production of both pennies and nickels to allow for a study on whether to maintain the suspension, ultimately discontinue production, or reinstate it.

但是，与他们的提议不同，Schweikert的法案将暂时停止购买便士和镍的生产，以允许研究是否维持暂停，最终停止生产或恢复生产。

Critics of Kolbe's and McCain's initiatives alleged that their primary goal was to boost mining in Arizona, which produces roughly two-thirds of U.S. copper, by compelling people to switch from pennies to nickels. Notably, pennies are about 98 percent zinc with a thin copper coating, while nickels are 75 percent copper.

对科尔贝和麦凯恩的举措的批评者声称，他们的主要目标是在亚利桑那州促进矿业，该采矿是通过迫使人们从便士转向镍的亚利桑那州大约三分之二的美国铜。值得注意的是，便士的锌约为98％，铜涂层薄，而镍为75％的铜。

Kolbe maintained that his main concern was the rising cost of making pennies, which was starting to exceed 1 cent. In a May 2006 conversation with CQ Roll Call's Ryan Kelly, he stated, "I was warning that the cost of producing the coin would soon surpass its purchasing value. Everyone acknowledged that when we got to that point, it would be time to act. That time is now."

科尔贝坚持认为，他的主要关注点是赚钱的成本上升，这开始超过1％。在2006年5月与CQ Roll Call的Ryan Kelly的对话中，他说：“我警告说，生产硬币的成本很快将超过其购买价值。每个人都承认，当我们达到这一点时，这是时候采取行动了。那个时候了。”

At that time, it cost about 1.4 cents to make one penny. The U.S. Mint now reports that the cost is 3.69 cents per coin and that it incurred a net loss of $85.3 million after spending about $117 million to ship 3.17 billion pennies in fiscal 2024.

当时，赚一分钱的成本约为1.4美分。美国造币厂现在报告说，费用为每枚硬币的369美分，并且在2024财年花费了约1.17亿美元，造成了约1.17亿美元的净亏损，净亏损为8530万美分。

Another bill, sponsored by Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., would authorize the Mint to propose a new metal mix for coins to reduce production costs. In a statement regarding the legislation, Amodei said, "This bill proposes a modernized approach to manufacturing our currency by allowing the Mint to modify the metal composition of coins with more affordable materials."

由R-Nev。众议员Mark Amodei赞助的另一项法案将授权造币厂提出新的金属混合物，以降低生产成本。 Amodei在有关立法的一份声明中说：“该法案提出了一种现代化的方法来制造我们的货币，允许薄荷修改用更实惠的材料修改硬币的金属成分。”

However, such a measure is unlikely to appease the residents of Greene County, Tenn., where the Artazn LLC plant, currently the sole producer of all penny blanks in the nation, is situated.

但是，这种措施不太可能安抚田纳西州格林县的居民，那里的Artazn LLC工厂（目前是全国所有Penny Blanks的唯一生产商）所在。

"Save the penny!" Jeff Taylor, head of the Greene County Partnership, posted on social media on Feb. 10, a day after Trump's call to discontinue the coin's production, according to The Greeneville Sun. "For those that do not know, every penny starts in Greene County. Save jobs in Greene County!" In a statement to WVLT News last week, Greene County Mayor Kevin Morrison disclosed that the factory employs 300 people.

“节省一分钱！”根据格林维尔·孙（Greeneville Sun）的说法，格林县伙伴关系负责人杰夫·泰勒（Jeff Taylor）于2月10日在社交媒体上发布，这是特朗普呼吁停止硬币生产的第二天。 “对于那些不知道的人，每一分钱都从格林县开始。在格林县节省工作！”格林县市长凯文·莫里森（Kevin Morrison）在上周给WVLT新闻的一份声明中透露，该工厂雇用了300名员工。

In contrast, President Ford's Treasury secretary in 1976, William E. Simon, held a differing opinion on the penny. "Get rid of the damn thing," he said, arguing that it was a waste of money. "If we'd abolished it years ago, we wouldn't have had to open the Denver Mint."

相比之下，福特总统在1976年，威廉·西蒙（William E. Simon）对便士持有不同的看法。他说：“摆脱了该死的事情。”他说这是浪费金钱。 “如果几年前我们废除了它，我们就不必打开丹佛薄荷。”

President Barack Obama also considered the penny to be "obsolete," but he doubted that most Americans would part with it, as reported by ABC News at the time. "It's one of those things where I think people get attached emotionally to the way things have been," Obama said in 2013. "We remember our piggy banks and counting out all the pennies and then taking them in and getting a dollar bill or a couple of dollars from it and maybe that's the reason people haven’t gotten around to it.”

总统巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）也认为一分钱是“过时的”，但他怀疑大多数美国人会与之分开，正如ABC News当时报道的那样。奥巴马在2013年说：“这是我认为人们在情感上依恋的事情之一。我们记得我们的小猪银行，算出所有的便士，然后将它们带入并获得一美元的账单或一美元从中获得了几美元，也许这就是人们没有到处走动的原因。”

During the Super Bowl, Trump presented the economic case against pennies in a post on Truth Social. "For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents," he wrote. "I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time."

在超级碗期间，特朗普在关于真理社会的帖子中提出了反对便士的经济案件。他写道：“长期以来，美国已经铸造了几分钱，这实际上使我们花费了2美分。” “我已经指示我的美国财政部长停止生产新的便士。让我们从我们的大国预算中削减废物，即使一次是一分钱。”

Several countries, including Canada, Brazil, and others, have already discontinued their versions of the 1-cent coin. According to the U.S. Mint, its output of all types of coins has dropped significantly, from about 15 billion produced five years ago to 5.87 billion last year, as cash is now used in only around 16 percent of consumer transactions, according to the

包括加拿大，巴西等在内的几个国家已经停止了其1美分硬币的版本。根据美国造币厂的数据，所有类型的硬币的产量已大幅下降，从五年前的大约150亿次生产到去年的58.7亿，因为现金现在仅在消费者交易中只有16％。