Trump Resurrects Push for Permanent Daylight Saving Time – One America News Network
OAN Staff James Meyers
11:32 AM – Friday, April 11, 2025
On Friday, President Donald Trump renewed his efforts to establish “Daylight Saving Time” as a permanent fixture, as Congress considers granting Americans an additional hour of daylight from November to March.
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“The House and Senate should advocate strongly for more Daylight in the evenings. It’s incredibly popular, and, most importantly, we won’t need to change the clocks anymore, which is a major inconvenience and can be costly for our government!!!” the president expressed on Truth Social Friday morning.
During his presidential campaign last year, Trump supported this proposal, although he seemed to retreat from it in March due to concerns from northern states about children walking to school in darkness during the winter months.
In December, Trump remarked: “The Republican Party will strive to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small yet vocal support base, but it shouldn’t!”
For most of the United States, the biannual clock adjustment is a routine, moving the clocks forward in spring to signify the beginning of Daylight Saving Time.
“The Republican Party will utilize its utmost efforts to abolish Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but vocal constituency, yet shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is a hassle and incurs significant costs to our Nation,” Trump stated in a December post on Truth Social.
The president mentioned last month that he found it “hard to get excited” about the concept because “it’s a very divisive issue, with half the people in favor and the other half against it.”
“I presume that people would prefer more light later in the day,” Trump continued, “but some individuals want more early light because they don’t want to be taking their kids to school in the dark.”
In 2022, serious reform was initiated when a bill proposed by then-Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), now Trump’s Secretary of State, unexpectedly passed the Senate unanimously before it was halted in the House.
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