I haven't sent btc in a while. Back when i sent btc, fees were less than 50 cents. Maybe 3 dollars? I went and tried to send less than 30 dollars of btc... fees show up as 12 dollars on electrum and thats with the lowest possible fee where i make it send within 25 blocks. Now if you want to send under 1 dollar, it cost 12 dollars. When is this issue getting fixed? Who in their right mind would send btc for small amounts when even the fee is that much? Its like paying 12 dollars for something you want to buy that is 1 dollar?
I would suggest that if that transaction isn't necessary and can be done in some other days or maybe a week or month, wait for that time until the fees started to be calm again. We can't do something about that today since miners are really looking for those transactions that has higher priorities and paid more than others. Some traders are converting their bitcoins to other altcoins like Doge and ETH to send their funds to others and just converting it later on but ETH has the same problem too. Crypto's are totally in demand today.