For the North American president-elect, the practice of changing the time is “inconvenient and very expensive” for the nation. Eliminating this calendar would require congressional approval.
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, insisted Friday on his intention to end the time change, an issue that is once again in the spotlight due to doubts about its effectiveness and benefits.
“The Republican Party will do everything possible to eliminate daylight saving time, which has a small but strong electorate, although it shouldn’t!”, stressed the Republican on his social network, Truth Social, returning to an idea he had already expressed in 2019.
Daylight Saving Time adjusts clocks twice a year to take advantage of more hours of natural light.
Clocks move forward one hour on the second Sunday in March and back one hour on the first in November to return to standard time.
For Trump, the practice of changing the time is “inconvenient and very expensive” for the nation.
Eliminating this calendar would require congressional approval.
Currently Hawaii and Arizona are the only two American states that do not observe daylight saving time.
In 2022, the Senate (upper house of Congress) unexpectedly approved Florida senator Marco Rubio’s bill, which sought to make daylight saving time permanent across the country from 2023, but this initiative was halted in the House of Representatives. Representatives (lower house).
