President Donald Trump wants to end minting the penny, calling it a waste of money. So how much does it cost to make? The U.S ...

The Department of Government Efficiency is not like other government agencies. Run by tech billionaire Elon Musk, DOGE is less than a month old.

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

Just a few weeks into the DOGE operation, there has been no shortage of provocative claims by Elon Musk about the effort he’s leading to radically reshape the federal government, scale back oversight ...

Why does Trump want to stop minting the penny? The coin now costs more than two cents to produce, Trump stated in a post on ...

Also included among the supposedly "wasteful" expenditures of taxpayer dollars by USAID, according to Musk, is lifesaving medical research, including malaria and HIV vaccine projects that are funded ...

The new lawsuit is one of several accusing President Donald Trump of skirting the Constitution and Musk of operating with ...

We joked about "President Musk" shortly after Donald Trump took office, but it turns out that wasn't far from the truth. Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk and his DOGE team wasted no time in trying ...