Donald Trump put Congress on notice about one annoying ritual that has Americans fed up

Americans are sick of the twice-yearly clock change.

Congress has been dragging its feet for years.

And Donald Trump just put Congress on notice about one annoying ritual that has Americans fed up.

Trump demands Congress finally end the clock changes

On November 2, Americans will once again "fall back" as clocks return to standard time at 2 a.m.

The ritual has become so routine most people don’t even think about it anymore.

Their phones automatically adjust while they sleep, and by Monday morning, everyone’s trying to remember if they gained or lost an hour.

But President Donald Trump is done tolerating this outdated nonsense.

"The House and Senate should push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day," Trump wrote on Truth Social in April.¹

"Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!"

Trump’s right about the cost.

Every time Americans change their clocks, productivity crashes, workplace injuries spike, and the government wastes taxpayer money adjusting systems and schedules.

A Chmura Economics study found the time changes cost the U.S. economy $670 million annually.²

That’s real money being flushed down the drain for a practice that made sense in 1918 but has zero relevance today.

The debate isn’t really about whether Trump prefers standard time or daylight saving time permanently – it’s about ending the ridiculous twice-yearly disruption that serves no purpose.

And Trump recognizes what Congress refuses to admit: Americans overwhelmingly want this madness to stop.

A Gallup poll found only 40% of Americans support the current system of switching times – down from 73% in 1999.³

When asked what they’d prefer, just 19% said keep changing clocks twice a year.⁴

The other 81% want to pick a time and stick with it.

That’s not a close call – that’s a mandate.

Congress has been sitting on this for years

Florida Senator Rick Scott reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act in January 2025, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide.⁵

The bill has 17 bipartisan cosponsors.

Here’s the infuriating part: the Senate already passed this exact same bill unanimously back in March 2022.

Unanimously.

Every single senator voted for it.

But the House of Representatives never even bothered to vote on it, and the bill died.

Now it’s 2025, and Congress is still playing games while Americans continue changing their clocks like it’s 1918.

"I hear from Americans constantly that they are sick and tired of changing their clocks twice a year – it’s an unnecessary, decades-old practice that’s more of an annoyance to families than benefit to them," Scott said.⁶

Translation: voters have been screaming about this for years, but Congress can’t get its act together.

At least 29 U.S. states have passed legislation saying they’d like to stay on daylight saving time permanently.⁷

But here’s the scam: they can’t actually do it without Congress changing federal law.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 lets states opt out of daylight saving time and stay on standard time year-round, like Arizona and Hawaii do.

But states can’t choose to stay on daylight saving time permanently without federal approval.

So Florida, California, Washington, and more than two dozen other states have passed laws they can’t actually enforce because Congress won’t give them permission.

That’s Washington, D.C. in a nutshell – states know what their people want, but the federal government blocks them from doing it.

The energy savings myth that won’t die

The original justification for daylight saving time was energy conservation.

During World War I, the theory went, shifting daylight hours would reduce the need for artificial lighting and save fuel.

That made sense in 1918 when most Americans went to bed at sunset and lighting was their main energy expense.

It makes zero sense in 2025.

Modern research shows daylight saving time saves less than 1% in electricity usage – and some studies found it actually increases energy use.⁸

When Indiana adopted daylight saving time in 2006, energy consumption in the state went up, not down.⁹

Why? Because Americans today don’t adjust their schedules based on sunset.

They’re running air conditioning, computers, TVs, and every other device regardless of whether the sun is up.

Mexican researchers found DST saves a trivial 0.16% in annual energy consumption.¹⁰

Point-one-six percent.

That’s a rounding error, not an energy policy.

The entire premise for continuing this practice is a lie, yet Congress keeps defending it.

The rest of the world is moving on

While Congress dithers, other countries are solving this problem.

Most of Central and South America has already abandoned clock changes entirely.

Brazil hasn’t observed daylight saving time since 2019.

Argentina dumped it in 2009.

Paraguay made its last time change in October 2024 and will keep daylight saving time year-round going forward.¹¹

In the Middle East, Jordan and Syria both switched to permanent summer time in 2022.¹²

Even the European Union nearly ended clock changes back in 2018 after 84% of 4.6 million survey respondents said they wanted it to stop.¹³

The European Parliament voted to phase out the practice by 2021.

The plan stalled because EU member states couldn’t agree on whether to stay on summer or winter time permanently, so Europeans are still stuck changing their clocks.

But at least they tried.

Congress won’t even bring it to a vote.

Here’s what it comes down to: Trump is pushing Congress to do what the American people have been demanding for years.

End the clock changes.

Pick a time – daylight saving or standard – and stick with it.

The details matter less than ending the twice-yearly disruption that costs money, reduces productivity, and annoys 81% of Americans.

Republicans control both the House and Senate in 2025.

There’s no excuse for not getting this done.

If Congress can’t handle something this simple and popular, what can they handle?

Trump’s making it clear: the time for excuses is over.

Lock the clock and move on to actual problems.

¹ Donald Trump, Truth Social, April 11, 2025.

² Chris Chmura, "Economic Cost of Daylight Savings Time: $670 Million," Chmura Economics, January 13, 2025.

³ Mary Claire Evans and Jeffrey M. Jones, "More Than Half in U.S. Want Daylight Saving Time Sunsetted," Gallup, March 4, 2025.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ "Sen. Rick Scott Leads Bipartisan Bill to ‘Lock The Clock,’" Office of Senator Rick Scott press release, January 15, 2025.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ "Daylight saving 2024: The debate to end the time change," NPR, March 8, 2024.

⁸ "Understanding Daylight Saving Time: Timeless Debate Between Health Risks and Energy Myths," Intelligent Living, November 3, 2024.

⁹ "The Pros and Cons of Daylight Saving Time," TimeandDate.com.

¹⁰ "Clocks Fall Back: 2024-2025 Daylight Saving Time Switch Dates & Global Debate," TS2 Space & Defense News, September 2024.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² Ibid.

¹³ Ibid.