By Maria Ortiz
Dec 13, 2024, 18:15 PM EST
The elected president donald trump said Friday that he and Republicans would seek to permanently eliminate the summer time when he takes office.
In a post on TruthSocial, Trump wrote: “The Republican Party will do everything it can to eliminate daylight saving time, which has a small but strong constituency, even though it shouldn’t! Daylight saving time is inconvenient and very costly for our nation.”
Daylight Saving Time adjusts the clocks twice a year to take advantage of more hours of natural light. They go forward one hour on the second Sunday of March and go back another hour on the first of November to return to standard time.
For Trump, the practice of changing the time is “inconvenient and very costly” for the nation.
Eliminating that schedule would require congressional approval.
However, the “Department of Government Efficiency” of Musk and Ramaswamy, created by Trump, could try to maintain daylight saving time all year round, according to what they both commented on social networks in early December.
Daylight saving time began to be implemented in the United States in 1918 to save energy during World War I, but certain parts of the country have avoided the practice.
In the United States, there are states and territories that They do not observe the change of daylight saving time.
According to the Council of State Governments, Hawaii and parts of Arizona have adopted a permanent standard time throughout the year and the US territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have observed the same stipulation.
In 2022, the Senate unexpectedly approved Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s bill that sought to summer time was permanent throughout the country starting in 2023, but that initiative was stopped in the House of Representatives.
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