特朗普说，他将停止铸造便士，这实际上使美国损失了2美分

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

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he had instructed the Treasury secretary to stop minting America’s one-cent coins.

唐纳德·特朗普总统周日宣布，他已指示财政部长停止铸造美国的单美分硬币。

“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” Trump said in a Truth Social post after going to half of the Super Bowl. “This is so wasteful!” he added. “Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time.”

特朗普在进入超级碗一半后的真相社会哨所中说：“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！”他补充说。 “即使一次是一分钱，让我们将废物从我们的大国预算中剥夺。”

Here are some key questions and opinionated answers about permanently pinching pennies from America’s coin purse.

这里有一些关键问题和关于永久捏合美国硬币钱包的便士的自以为是的答案。

Is this not a terrible idea?

这不是一个可怕的主意吗？

It might even be a good idea. Assuming Trump isn’t just making news and can actually do this — and follows through competently and without somehow carelessly breaking the U.S. economy — there may be broad support for the plan. Because seriously: Nobody wants to deal with pennies anymore, from retail clerks to wishing-well cleaners to banks and small children. These days, you can buy next to nothing for less than a heavy bag of pennies. If you want to buy a dozen eggs right now, it will cost you like seven pounds of pennies.

这甚至可能是个好主意。假设特朗普不仅可以发表新闻，而且可以实际上做到这一点 - 并遵守有能力，而不必以某种方式破坏了美国的经济，可能会对该计划有广泛的支持。因为很认真：从零售业务员到希望清洁清洁工到银行和小孩，没人愿意再与便士打交道。如今，您几乎可以买不到一袋便士。如果您现在想购买十二个鸡蛋，那将花费您七磅的便士。

Can Trump unilaterally discontinue the penny?

特朗普可以单方面停止一分钱吗？

Like so many other things Trump has said or tried to do since retaking office, it’s not clear if he can legally do that. It would probably require an act of Congress to fully discontinue the coin, since Congress dictates America’s currency specifications. But as with so many other things, Trump may just try to do it anyway.

就像特朗普自职以来所说或尝试做的许多其他事情一样，尚不清楚他是否可以合法地做到这一点。由于国会规定了美国的货币规格，因此可能需要国会的一项法案才能完全中断硬币。但是，与其他许多事情一样，特朗普可能还是试图做到这一点。

How much does it cost to make pennies? How wasteful are they?

赚钱多少钱？他们有多浪费？

The U.S. Mint said it lost $85.3 million making 3.2 billion pennies in the fiscal year 2024. And every one-cent penny cost 3.7 cents to make.

美国造币厂表示，在2024财政年度，损失了8530万美元的32亿便士。每一分钱的赚钱费用为3.7美分。

Last year, The New York Times Magazine published a very convincing argument for abolishing the penny. As Caity Weaver reported:

去年，《纽约时报》杂志发表了一个令人信服的论点，以废除一分钱。正如凯蒂·韦弗（Caity Weaver）报道的那样：

Most pennies produced by the U.S. Mint are given out as change but never spent; this creates an incessant demand for new pennies to replace them, so that cash transactions that necessitate pennies (i.e., any concluding with a sum whose final digit is 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 or 9) can be settled. Because these replacement pennies will themselves not be spent, they will need to be replaced with new pennies that will also not be spent, and so will have to be replaced with new pennies that will not be spent, which will have to be replaced by new pennies (that will not be spent, and so will have to be replaced). In other words, we keep minting pennies because no one uses the pennies we mint.

美国造币厂生产的大多数便士都被赋予变革，但从未花费。这产生了对新便士替换它们的不断需求，因此可以解决必要便士的现金交易（即，最终数字为1、2、3、4、6、6、7、8或9的总和的任何结论） 。因为这些替代便士本身将不会花费，所以需要将它们替换为也不会花费的新便士，因此必须用不花的新便士代替，这些便士将不得不用来替换便士（这不会花费，因此必须更换）。换句话说，我们不断造币厂，因为没有人使用我们造币厂的便士。

A conservative estimate holds that there are 240 billion pennies lying around the United States — about 724 ($7.24) for every man, woman and child there residing, and enough to hand two pennies to every bewildered human born since the dawn of man.

保守的估计认为，在美国各地有2400亿美元的便士 - 每个居住的男人，女人和儿童约有724（7.24美元），足以将两便士交给自男人黎明以来出生的每个迷人的人。

Furthermore, Weaver noted that if everyone collected all the pennies they had just lying around in coin jars or wherever and used them, dealing with the sudden surplus of heavy, mostly worthless coins could break our financial system, logistically.

此外，Weaver指出，如果每个人都收集了他们刚刚躺在硬币罐或任何地方并使用它们的所有便士，那么应对沉重的沉重盈余，大部分毫无价值的硬币可能会破坏我们的金融体系。

And per CNN, Jeff Lenard, the vice-president of strategic industry initiatives at the National Association of Convenience Stores, has speculated that getting rid of pennies could save millions of seconds of lost productivity every day. Think of everything we could collectively do with all those seconds.

而且，美国国家便利店协会战略行业倡议副总裁杰夫·莱纳德（Jeff Lenard）推测，摆脱便士可以节省数百万秒的生产力损失。想想我们可以共同完成所有这些秒的一切。

Has anyone else successfully gotten rid of pennies?

还有其他人成功摆脱了便士吗？

Yes! Canada, the massive coin-heavy country that has zero interest in becoming America’s 51st state, sunsetted its pennies more than a decade ago. Canadians just rounded prices up or down in penniless situations, still used the cent in other non-cash transactions, and it’s all gone fine. Australia also got rid of its penny, and New Zealand got rid of its one-, two-, and five-cent coins.

是的！加拿大，这是一个对成为美国第51个州的巨大兴趣零的国家，十多年前降落了几分钱。加拿大人只是在一文不见的情况下将价格上涨或下跌，仍然在其他非现金交易中使用了一分钱，而且一切都很好。澳大利亚也摆脱了一分钱，新西兰摆脱了其一，两美分的硬币。

Also, the U.S. got rid its half-cent coin back in 1857.

另外，美国在1857年摆脱了半美分的硬币。

Who opposes ending the penny?

谁反对结束一分钱？

The zinc industry isn’t much of a fan of the idea, nor is the pro-penny lobbyist Americans for Common Cents, which has been funded by the company that sells zinc coin blanks to the U.S. Mint. In 2006, the organization hired Britney Spears’s ex-husband, Kevin “K-Fed” Federline, to wear an Abraham Lincoln mask at a penny-pushing event in Times Square. (“Man, I feel good about the penny!” he reportedly said.) More recently, the ACC responded to a DOGE attack on the penny by insisting that eliminating the penny would waste more taxpayer money, not less, since it would require the production of more nickels:

锌行业并不是这个想法的忠实拥护者，专业人士的游说者也不是普通美分的美国人，该公司是由向美国造币厂出售锌硬币空白的公司资助的。 2006年，该组织在时代广场举行的一场佳分赛事上聘请了布兰妮·斯皮尔斯（Britney Spears）的前夫凯文·凯文·弗德·费德林（Kevin“ K-Fed” Federline）戴上亚伯拉罕·林肯面具。 （“伙计，我对一分钱感觉很好！”他说。）最近，ACC通过坚持认为消除一分钱会浪费更多纳税人的钱，而不是少于一分钱，因为这将需要这需要，因为这将需要生产更多镍：

[I]t would increase the Mint’s losses due to higher

[i]由于较高