The penny shortage happening during the government shutdown in November 2025

Today is day 32 of the US government shutdown. The government shutdown started on October 1, 2025. Donald Trump is in the tenth month of his second term as US president. Trump has made another horrible decision by stopping production of the one cent coin. The US Mint officially stopped making pennies in May 2025. The Treasury Dept. of the USA is no longer producing the one cent coin. Furthermore, Abraham Lincoln's face is on the penny. Mr. Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the USA, and he held the office from 1861 to 1865. Abraham Lincoln's face is on the penny since 1909. 1909 is the year, that Lincoln would have turned 100 years old. Besides the one cent coin, Abraham Lincoln's face graces the $5 bill in USA. Next, G. Ripley paid $5 for groceries today and the receipt stated the total was $4.43. Fry's store in Tempe, AZ decided to give me $.60 back as change instead of $.57. Due to the penny shortage, Fry's grocery store is rounding up. G. Ripley confirmed with a store employee that the blue sign informs consumers that the store policy is to round up, due to the US National penny shortage. Back to the government shutdown, November 5 would mark the thirty sixth day of the shutdown. November 5 would make the current US government shutdown as the longest US government shutdown ever. From January 2017 to January 2021, Donald Trump served as the 45th president of the USA. The US government shutdown lasted 35 days during 2018-2019, and that timeframe lasts as the longest shutdown currently in US history. The Democrats want the ACA (affordable care act) tax credits to pass. The ACA tax credits have expanded subsidies that will expire on December 31, 2025. In closing, the US Mint was established in 1792 during George Washington's first term as the first US president. The penny was one of the first coins that was produced by the US Mint. Michael Johnson is a Republican senator representing Congress, from the state of Louisiana. He is the current Speaker of the House of Representatives. Michael Johson is declining to swear in Adelita Grijalva, and she is a Democratic U.S. representative-elect for Arizona's seventh congressional district. Michael Johnson has made the costly decision of giving Republicans, in the House of representatives a recess that has lasted more than 32 days. If Adelita Grijalva were sworn as another senator in the House of Representatives, her vote would give the US government a huge chance of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. Grijalva's vote is the deciding vote, which would release the Epstein files. Enjoy the picture above of the Capitol building, and Social Security with an airline depiction of the US government shutdown taken from the Fast Company magazine.