In the US, President Donald Trump supports ending the twice-yearly clock changes and making daylight saving time permanent. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill prepared in this direction by a vote of 48 to 1. Trump stated in a social media post that clock changes cost people, cities, and states hundreds of millions of dollars and emphasized the importance of eliminating this practice. The office of Republican Representative Vern Buchanan from Florida announced that the Sunshine Protection Act bill passed the committee as part of the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act. The bill aims to make daylight saving time permanent but does not require states that do not adopt daylight saving time to comply. The bill is progressing in the House and Senate with bipartisan support.