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Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social
@TrumpDailyPosts
For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post 09:27 PM EST 02/09/25

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The Ecstatic said:

Something I saw mentioned the other day that I hadn’t considered:

Trump is floating shit like this on a weekly basis to essentially insider trade, knowing full well the ruling class won’t abide some massive departure of the global economic status quo.

Occam’s razor and all.

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SirTripAlot said:

It costs almost 12 cents to mint a nickel; opportunity lost.

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gopher said:

It's not illegal to sell to someone who plans to scrap them though if you don't know they plan to scrap them

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ballsalsa said:

Could you imagine? That would be wild considering that cops have no duty to stop a crime

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SirTripAlot said:

One of the biggest myths is that da pigs prevent crime. They merely respond to it (if they choose to) after it occured. On a very minimal scale... undercover shit that borders on entrapment. Alot of times more cops equals more crime.

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Make Bribery Great Again

US President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order rolling back enforcement of a law that makes it illegal for US companies to bribe foreign officials, arguing that the restriction puts American firms at a disadvantage.

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SirTripAlot said:

When I worked at a big bank for regulatory compliance, one of the only complaints (besides litigation) that was taken seriously was those submitted through  the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The bank would segregate these claims and go over it meticulously....others like BBB complaints were all but laughed at.



https://apnews.com/article/trump-consumer-protection-cease-1b93c60a773b6b5ee629e769ae6850e9


Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.

Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB, in a Saturday night email confirmed by The Associated Press, to stop work on proposed rules, to suspend the effective dates on any rules that were finalized but not yet effective, and to stop investigative work and not begin any new investigations. The agency has been a target of conservatives since President Barack Obama pushed to include it in the 2010 financial reform legislation that followed the 2007-2008 financial crisis.

The email also ordered the bureau to “cease all supervision and examination activity.”

On Sunday, administration officials also said that the CFPB’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. would be closed the week of Feb. 10 through Feb. 14, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. No reason was given for closure.

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