President-elect Donald Trump announced that his administration will work toward eliminating Daylight Saving Time.
“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 said.
The announcement comes as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have pushed for ending the clock changes.
Daylight saving time was established by Congress through the Uniform Time Act of 1966. The law placed the Department of Transportation (DOT) in charge of enforcing DST but allowed states to opt-out.
Earlier this year, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ed Markey (D-MA) reintroduced legislation on the matter. A companion bill was introduced in the House by Vern Buchanan (R-FL).
“Instead of springing forward and falling back every year, we should just make Daylight Saving Time permanent,” Markey said at the time. “The antiquated biannual ritual of toggling between times isn’t just an inconvenience—it also has very real impacts on our economy, our energy consumption, and our health. We know the sun will come out tomorrow, so let’s make that sun stay out an hour later by making Daylight Saving Time permanent and passing the Sunshine Protection Act. You can bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun … and smiles.”
Rubio stated, “We’re ‘springing forward’ but should have never ‘fallen back.’ My Sunshine Protection Act would end this stupid practice of changing our clocks back and forth.”
