Trump renews push to end daylight saving time
President-elect Donald Trump is advocating to eliminate daylight saving time — again. In a Truth Social post Friday, Trump said the practice of changing the clocks twice a year is “inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.” “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” he said in the post. Trump first threw his support behind the idea of permanently keeping America on daylight saving time in 2019 when state legislatures across the nation were considering eliminating the practice. Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states that don’t observe daylight saving time. In 2022, the Senate unanimously and surprisingly passed a bill from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — now Trump’s pick for secretary of State — to make daylight saving time permanent, but it died in the House. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s cosponsors, who joined with Rubio again just two months ago to renew their push to “lock the clock,” continued that call on Friday in response to Trump’s post. “Switching the clocks just doesn’t make sense for a country on the move,” he said in a statement to POLITICO. “But we need permanent daylight saving time — more hours of daylight in the evening means more hours to get things done.”
President-elect Donald Trump is advocating to eliminate daylight saving time — again.
In a Truth Social post Friday, Trump said the practice of changing the clocks twice a year is “inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” he said in the post.
Trump first threw his support behind the idea of permanently keeping America on daylight saving time in 2019 when state legislatures across the nation were considering eliminating the practice. Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states that don’t observe daylight saving time.
In 2022, the Senate unanimously and surprisingly passed a bill from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — now Trump’s pick for secretary of State — to make daylight saving time permanent, but it died in the House.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s cosponsors, who joined with Rubio again just two months ago to renew their push to “lock the clock,” continued that call on Friday in response to Trump’s post.
“Switching the clocks just doesn’t make sense for a country on the move,” he said in a statement to POLITICO. “But we need permanent daylight saving time — more hours of daylight in the evening means more hours to get things done.”
