US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday criticized daylight saving as “inconvenient and very costly to our nation” and announced that the Republican Party would prioritize efforts to end the practice. will give
“The Republican Party will do its best to kill Daylight Savings Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but it shouldn’t!” Trump said on social media. “Daylight Savings Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our nation.”
Daylight saving time—setting clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the most of longer evenings—has been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but in recent times This has been a topic of debate. The year
Some lawmakers want to stay on standard time year-round, making record calls to remain on Daylight Savings Time most of the year, while others want to keep the status quo. President Joe Biden has never taken a public stance on the issue.
In March 2022, the US Senate voted unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent, but the effort stalled in the House after lawmakers said they could not reach a consensus. In March, a bipartisan group of senators made a new push to make daylight saving time permanent.
Proponents of daylight saving time say it will lead to brighter afternoons and evenings and more economic activity during the winter months. Critics say it will force children to go to school in the dark, as the move will delay sunrise by an hour.
Proponents of ending daylight saving time altogether argue that the twice-yearly clock change causes sleep disturbances and health problems.
Congress has not held a new hearing on the issue in more than two years, and the Senate will need to take it up again.
Year-round daylight savings time was used during World War II and was reintroduced in 1973 to reduce energy consumption due to the oil embargo, but it was unpopular and was repealed a year later. done
Since 2015, nearly 30 states have introduced or passed legislation to end the biannual clock change, with some proposing to do so only if neighboring states do the same.