On Friday, President-elect Trump stated that Republicans would now work to repeal daylight saving time, decrying it as both “inconvenient” and “costly.”
For many years, legislators have been introducing laws with the intention of making daylight saving time a permanent practice; nevertheless, the legislation has had a difficult time passing through both chambers of Congress.
“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 on his Truth Social account.
Those who advocate for the permanent implementation of daylight saving time, which would eliminate the requirement for the majority of Americans to set their clocks back by one hour in the fall, have stated that this would enable more sunlight to enter the day later on, thereby enabling individuals to spend more time doing activities outside.
Critics of the change, on the other hand, have stated that it would mean that it would continue to be dark outside later into the morning, which would force children to go to school and, in some cases, wait for buses with the darkness.
Maintaining standard time would result in an increase in the amount of sunlight that is available earlier in the day throughout the year.
The question of whether or not Trump supported the permanent implementation of daylight saving time or standard time was not immediately evident.
The majority of the United States has been observing daylight saving time since the 1960s, despite the fact that it was initially implemented in 1918 by Woodrow Wilson, who was serving as President at the time.
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