It'd be pretty easy done if the coin-bill issue was made a partisan political issue, then it would get done out of spite. It wouldn't matter which way it went, one argument could be 'progressive' Dems wanting the change while 'conservative' Reps wanting to conserve the current order or alternatively the fiscally responsible Reps wanting the change and the big spending Dems wanting the more expensive option.
Get this argument going and in the spiteful, virtue-signalling US political climate these days it'd be an easy win for whichever side backs the change. By the time of the next election Americans would be used to it and not care.
It is hard to make people care that much. It is one thing to make abortion a big issue and another to make dollar bills one. Nobody cares enough about it to be a major issue. Whether the US has dollar bills or dollar coins is not a big enough a deal to be a huge partisan issue. Why waste time and energy on that? There are far bigger concerns out there to worry about it. It isn't going to happen because bills are easier to carry then coins.
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