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Trump Revives Effort To Make ‘Daylight Saving Time’ Permanent

Werner Stechbarth poses inmid his collection of clocks in his living room in Munich, southern Germany, on March 22, 2024. Some 366 clocks cover the walls in the living room of 76-year-old Werner Stechbarth's apartment in Munich, the haul from a life spent criss-crossing the globe. The early year move to daylight saving time is a busy period for the pensioner, who takes it upon himself to adjust every one of his timepieces. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AN AFP STORY BY Pauline CURTET (Photo by MICHAELA STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)
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OAN Staff James Meyers
11:32 AM – Friday, April 11, 2025

President Donald Trump revamped his push to make “Daylight Saving Time” permanent, amid efforts in Congress to give Americans an extra hour of sunlight from November to March.

“The House and Senate should push hard for more daylight at the end of the day. Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, a VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!” the president declared Friday morning in a post on Truth Social.

During his presidential run last year, Trump endorsed the idea, but appeared to back away from his support in March — citing northern states’ concerns about children having to walk to school in the dark during the winter months.

In December, Trump said in a statement: “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!”

Meanwhile, the majority of the United States observes the biannual time shift, adjusting clocks forward or backward by one hour. The transition, known as “springing forward,” marks the onset of 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 declared in a December post on Truth Social.

The president said last month that it was “hard to get excited” about the idea, since “it’s very much a 50/50 issue and it’s something I can do, but a lot of people like it one way, a lot of people like it the other way.”

“I assume people would like to have more light later,” Trump added at the time, “but some people want to have more light earlier because they don’t want to take their kids to school in the dark.”

In 2022, serious reform was initiated when a bill sponsored by then-Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), now Trump’s Secretary of State — unexpectedly passed the Senate unanimously before being stopped in the House.

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