President Donald Trump talks of big change in his second term of office. But he’s not forgetting small change. Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies with a Feb. 10 sentence on his social media account that followed years of conservatives pointing out that putting a copper-coated zinc disc in your pocket costs the government more than a cent. It's almost 4 cents today. There is no sign that the U.S. Mint will stop pressing pennies, and Mint officials did not respond to requests for clarification this week. But the presidential penny pledge is already being felt in one niche world that depends on loading pennies into machines and persuading parents to feed a few dollars into machines that stamp designs on them.
