President-elect Donald Trump wants to end Daylight Saving Time changes – and he said Friday the Republican Party will work to do just that.
Americans have grown increasingly irked by the need to adjust the time every spring and fall, and many have called for a change — though abolishing the seasonal changes would require an act of Congress.
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump said Friday in a post to his Truth Social platform. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”
A bipartisan push in the Senate to end the time change and make Daylight Savings Time permanent gained steam in 2022 when the Sunshine Protection Act was passed by unanimous consent. It ultimately failed to pass when the House did not act on it.
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Trump’s announcement drew mixed reaction across social media, with some users showing support for the idea, while others raised questions surrounding the change.
“Get in losers, we’re ending Daylight Savings Time,” Townhall columnist Dustin Grage told his followers on X. “We are so back.”
"Donald Trump says he wants to get rid of Daylight Saving Time. He needs to make it permanent,” artist Art Candee wrote in a social media post. “It shouldn't get dark at 4:30 in the afternoon in the winter.”
“Ok does he mean permanent standard time?” reporter Emily Brooks wrote to her followers on X. “Or permanent daylight savings time like a lot of people want? Because there is a big (1 hour) difference!”
HuffPost reporter Arthur Delaney pointed out to his followers on X: “The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It.”