Nikki Schwab writes for DailyMail.com about a government reform that makes cents … I mean sense.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking into stopping production of the penny to save taxpayers money. 

In a post on X Tuesday night, the Elon Musk-run group pointed out that a penny now costs three cents to make – triple its value. 

That cost taxpayers a whopping $179 million in fiscal year 2023, the post said.DOGE has been tasked with coming up with recommendations on how to cut federal spending. 

It’s unclear if it would advise permanently killing off the penny, or just halting or trimming the penny’s production. 

The U.S. Mint already decreased the production of the penny between 2023 and 2024 by nearly 29 percent. 

U.S. Mint data from 2024 showed a fourth straight year of declining coin production, according to CoinNews.net.

The article also pointed out that the Federal Reserve typically orders more pennies to be minted than any other denomination. 

Other countries have started killing off their one cent coins, including the U.S.’s neighbor to the north Canada. 

Canada stopped producing 1 cent coins in 2012. 

However a 2018 analysis from the Atlantic Economic Journal found that because most grocery store prices end in 9, Canadians spent about $3.27 million more in Canadian dollars at grocery stores with prices being rounded up to the nearest nickel.

While Trump has pledged to save taxpayers money with initiatives like DOGE, his No. 1 mandate from voters was for him to get food and gas prices lowered. 

Voters didn’t believe President Joe Biden didn’t do enough to right the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic.  …

… The president signed DOGE into existance on Monday, hours after being sworn-in. DOGE has already cut its leadership in half with former 2024 Republican hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy deciding against taking the co-leadership role with Musk that Trump assigned him. 

Ramaswamy instead will focus on a 2026 Ohio gubernatorial run.