President Trump on Friday renewed his call for changes to daylight saving time, just a month after he suggested the public was too evenly split on the issue for it to be worthwhile.
President Donald Trump is weighing in on a national debate, apparently calling on Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
“The House and Senate should push hard for more Daylight at the end of a 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.
Senators debated the annual changes between Daylight Saving Time and Standard time during a hearing Thursday.
Lawmakers have regularly introduced bills to make daylight saving time permanent, but the legislation has struggled to make it through both chambers of Congress.
Supporters of making daylight saving permanent, which would end the need for most Americans to turn the clocks back an hour in the fall, have argued it would allow for more sunlight later into the day, allowing people to enjoy the outdoors for longer. It’s also a popular proposal among golfers and golf course developers.
But critics of the shift have argued it would mean it would remain dark out later into the morning, forcing children to go to school, and in some cases wait for buses, in the dark.
I am all for daylight savings time to be permanent. Since it would stay light a little longer maybe there should be an adjustment made for school to start a little later so that children wouldn’t have to wait in the dark for school buses.
Just do it. The changing is very dumb and causes all kinds of problems