President Trump said the Republican Party will attempt to “eliminate Daylight Saving Time.”

“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

🚨 NEW: President-elect Trump says the Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Savings Time. pic.twitter.com/kIzm7E1xLe

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 13, 2024

From the Associated Press:

Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942.

Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether. The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act, had proposed making daylight saving time permanent.

The measure was sponsored by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump has tapped to helm the State Department.

“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said as the Senate voted in favor of the measure.

“Congress once made Daylight Saving Time permanent. It was so unpopular that Congress repealed it less than a year later. The only sensible and durable way to stop the biannual time change is to make Standard Time permanent. I will work on this issue with @realDonaldTrump,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said.

Congress once made Daylight Saving Time permanent. It was so unpopular that Congress repealed it less than a year later. The only sensible and durable way to stop the biannual time change is to make Standard Time permanent. I will work on this issue with @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/SZp4UsneDq

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) December 13, 2024

“As Americans wake up this morning after changing their clocks again, Congress should be reminded about passing my bill to #LocktheClock once and for all on Daylight Saving Time,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said last month.

As Americans wake up this morning after changing their clocks again, Congress should be reminded about passing my bill to #LocktheClock once and for all on Daylight Saving Time ⏰☀️ pic.twitter.com/ltOV74pZw8

— Senator Marco Rubio (@SenMarcoRubio) November 3, 2024

Per NBC News:

Two of Trump’s top advisers, tech mogul Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, whom the president-elect has tapped to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency, have also floated the idea of eliminating time changes.

“Looks like the people want to abolish the annoying time changes!” Musk wrote on X last month.

Ramaswamy replied to him, writing, “It’s inefficient & easy to change.”

Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s son, also replied to Musk’s post but seemed to share an opposite position from his father’s.

“Leave it daylight savings time always,” Trump Jr. wrote, adding in several emojis of the number “100,” signifying his agreement with Musk.

The younger Trump’s position is consistent with a bill the Senate passed in 2022 that would have made daylight saving time permanent beginning the following year.