Trump renews push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday renewed his push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent amid bipartisan 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 a day,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!”

Trump, 78, endorsed the idea last year, but appeared to back away from his support last month — noting that northern states have concerns about children having to go 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!”

But in the Oval Office last month, the president said it was “hard to get excited” about the idea because “it’s very much a fifty-fifty 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.”

Serious consideration of reform started in 2022 when a bill sponsored by then-Sen Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — now Trump’s secretary of state — unexpectedly passed the Senate unanimously before dying in the House.