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Its mission is supposedly to find ways to make the government more efficient and cost effective. On Tuesday, DOGE shared a message noting that the US spends approximately 3 cents to mint every penny.

Pennies are only worth one cent. "The penny costs over 3 cents to make and cost U.S. taxpayers over $179 million in FY2023," the message from DOGE read. "The Mint produced over 4.5 billion pennies ...