Donald Trump Vows To End ‘Inconvenient’ Daylight Saving Time | EUROtoday

President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Friday to do away with daylight saving time, calling the follow of semiannual clock-switching “inconvenient” and “costly.”

“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump wrote in a publish on his social media platform Truth Social.

It’s not clear whether or not Trump meant that he helps making daylight saving time everlasting, or just that he helps sticking with customary time, which started on Nov. 3 this 12 months and can finish on March 9, 2025.

In 2022, the Senate unanimously handed laws making daylight saving time everlasting for the complete United States. The invoice, titled the Sunshine Protection Act, was co-sponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). The senators cited elevated coronary heart assaults and automobile accidents throughout customary time as causes the nation ought to get rid of clock-switching. However, the GOP-controlled House by no means took up the invoice.

“It’s time to lock the clock and stop enduring the ridiculous and antiquated practice of switching our clocks back and forth. Let’s finally pass my Sunshine Protection Act and end the need to ‘fall back’ and ‘spring forward’ for good,” Rubio stated in a press release this October.

Opponents of the transfer have argued that early-morning darkness can be harmful for youngsters going to highschool, and would make life tougher for shift employees.

The U.S. tried everlasting daylight saving time within the Seventies, however Congress reversed it after one 12 months attributable to complaints about no daylight in some elements of the nation till 9 a.m.

Republicans might have a tough time ending daylight financial savings within the subsequent Congress. Although they are going to have a bigger 53-47 majority within the Senate, their razor-thin edge within the House ― only a single vote early subsequent 12 months ― will make passing any controversial invoice extraordinarily troublesome.