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Trump slams Senate over stalled bill to end clock changes: 'Too bad'
President Donald Trump criticized the Senate for still not passing legislation to end twice-yearly clock changes, complaining that the sun now sets around 5 p.m. and saying he had not wanted to make an issue of it before the midterm elections.
President Donald Trump renewed his push to end daylight saving time's twice-a-year clock changes, criticizing the Senate for failing to take up a bill the House has already passed. In a social media post a day after the midterm elections, Trump pointed out that the sun is now setting around 5 p.m. local time and that it gets dark early, calling it "too bad" that the Senate still had not approved the measure, Anadolu Agency reported.
Trump said he had not wanted to make a big issue of it before the midterms, and noted that the House had sent the legislation to the Senate several times without the upper chamber acting on it.
A long-running fight over the clock
Trump promised last year to end the clock changes, saying Republicans would finally solve the problem. In October he stepped up pressure on Sen. Tom Cotton, who opposes the bill, in a series of posts on Truth Social, Salon reported. Supporters of permanent daylight saving time argue Americans get more use of daylight; critics, including many sleep scientists, favor permanent standard time instead.
Daylight saving time has been applied in various forms in the United States since World War I and has been observed nationwide under a 1966 federal law. Congress adopted permanent daylight saving time in the 1970s, but repealed it after about 10 months amid public backlash.
Photo: Anadolu Agency
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