‘A Great Move’: Democratic Governor Praises Trump for Ordering An End to the Penny

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Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) praised President Donald Trump’s order getting rid of the penny on Sunday, calling it “a great move.”

Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. Treasury would stop producing pennies at his path.

“For a ways too long the US has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have recommended my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our nice nations [sic] funds, although it’s a penny at a time,” Trump posted to his Reality Social platform.

Polis, the favored two-term governor, replied to Trump and wrote, “In addition to saving taxpayers lots of of hundreds of thousands of bucks, there are main environmental advantages to taking away the penny. This is a great transfer.”

The Colorado Democrat has long been a proponent of eliminating the penny. In December, he argued, “Taking away the penny would keep over $300,000,000 per year (each penny prices over three cents to make) and changing the buck invoice with a greenback coin world shop over one billion dollars a decade.” Polis tagged both Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two co-leaders of DOGE at the time.

Following Trump’s election in November, Polis raised eyebrows when he stated he was “excited” to work with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on a variety of considerations that the controversial healthcare advocate has long championed.

“I’m excited with the aid of the information that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and can help make America wholesome again with the aid of shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal option on vaccines moderately than bans (which I feel are bad, similar to mandates) but what I’m most positive about is taking up big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to enhance our well being,” Polis posted as a part of a prolonged tweet discussing a variety of considerations together with enhancing diet requirements and ridding agriculture of pesticides.

Despite his willingness to reward Trump at times, Polis has additionally been a harsh critic of the president, slamming his tariffs among different latest strikes.

“Trump’s tariffs can be a tax on Coloradans and American families, and raise the cost of the whole thing from meals to gas. Trump’s tariffs make us less competitive, harm folks and relatively frankly make no experience,” Polis wrote earlier within the month.

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