President-elect Donald Trump unveiled a new priority for his administration, promising to end daylight saving time in his second term.
He made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, dismissing the practice as “very costly” to the country.
“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. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”
Some expressed confusion about the announcement, pointing out that eliminating and making daylight saving time permanent are two very different things.
“Ok does he mean permanent standard time? or permanent daylight savings time like a lot of people want? because there is a big (1 hour) difference!” the Hill’s Emily Brooks said.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Trump’s team for clarification.
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will head the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, have both signaled they plan to push for an end to daylight saving time. However, such an effort would rely on Congress, which has thus far not acted.
In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which established daylight saving time and assigned the responsibility of enforcing it to the Department of Transportation. The most recent effort to overturn it was the Senate’s Sunshine Protection Act, passed by the Senate in 2021 but not yet voted on by the House.
