Donald Trump fired off a policy statement from Mar-a-Lago on Friday saying he would do his utmost to “eliminate” daylight saving time.
Trump, who is assembling a Cabinet and preparing to make campaign promises on tax cuts, removing illegal aliens and ending wars in Ukraine and Gaza, made the statement in a post about his Truth Social vision.
“The Republican Party will do its utmost to abolish Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong support base, but it shouldn’t have to! Daylight Savings Time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation,” Trump wrote.
His nominee for secretary of state, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), has drafted a bill that would provide permanent daylight time. That effort could be popular in many urban areas during the winter months with short days.
The sun sets in New York on Friday at 4:29 PM. If the country had remained on daylight time, it would have set at 5:30 am. (The sun rises there at 7:13 am on the 14th. In daylight it would rise an hour later).
In West Palm Beach, the sun sets an hour later, at 5:29 p.m., with no daylight Thursday.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Trump transition to confirm its position.
Rubio’s bill for permanent daylight time, called the Sunshine Protection Act, passed the Senate with unanimous consent in 2022 — meaning there were no objections, so going along with Trump’s efforts as described would be an extraordinary turnaround.
“Daylight Savings Time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation,” President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Friday. A Republican bill for permanent daylight time passed the Senate unanimously in 2022
The idea of ending the biannual clock changing has the support of a powerful Trump advisor, SpaceX founder and the world’s richest man Elon Musk.
“Looks like people want to get rid of the annoying time changes!” he posted last month on X, his social media site.
That prompted an enthusiastic repost from Donald Trump Jr., an avid sportsman who lives in Florida. ‘leave it always daylight saving time’ with emojis that radiate 100% support.
Musk’s partner in the government’s new Ministry of Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy, was also discussed.
“It is inefficient and easy to change,” Ramaswamy wrote.
Others claim that daylight contributes to sleep loss.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who has been a constant Trump companion since the election, calls the changes between standard and daylight time ‘annoying’
Online in support of the president-elect was Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who will lead the Senate Intelligence Committee.
But despite not objecting or not attending in 2022, Cotton supported Trump.
“Congress once made daylight saving time permanent. It was so unpopular that Congress repealed it less than a year later. The only sensible and sustainable way to stop the biennial time change is to make standard time permanent. I will work on this issue with @realDonaldTrump. w
“There are enormous health and economic benefits to making daylight saving time permanent,” said Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan in 2023. He said it reduced the number of car accidents and reduced cardiac arrests.
He cited a Brookings Institution study that found a reduction in robberies and a JP Morgan Chase study that concluded there is a decline in economic activity when the clock goes back.
He noted that the country observed permanent daylight during the period 1974-1975. That happened during the oil crisis. According to a New York Times report at the time the law was repealed, “parents were concerned about traffic accidents involving their children who went to school in the early darkness on winter mornings,” although a Transportation Department investigation found no provided a clear answer. photo with each elevation.