12/16/2024

Trump Calls for Ending Daylight Saving Time

He called it "inconvenient" and "costly"

Donald Trump wants to end America’s century-old practice of "springing forward" and "falling back."

"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't!," he wrote Friday on his social media platform Truth Social. "Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our nation."*

Any effort to permanently change the nation’s clocks would require the cooperation of Congress, which has been gridlocked over recent time-change legislation — and whether it makes sense to end daylight saving time or adopt it year-round instead.

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*Grammatical corrections related to capitalization corrected by OSAP.