One Senator Killed This Trump-Backed Slam Duck Once Before and Now He Is Doing It Again

A Congressional committee voted 48-1 to stop changing your clocks twice a year.

One man in the Senate has already killed this bill once – and he is lining up to do it again.

Trump just made this his personal fight, and the whole country is watching one senator from Arkansas.

Trump Calls Out the Insanity Americans Have Tolerated for Decades

Every spring, millions of Americans lose an hour of sleep – and doctors say that single stolen hour kills people.

Now Trump is putting his full weight behind the bill that ends it for good.

He just called the vote a "very nice WIN" – and promised to work to make it law after the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Sunshine Protection Act Thursday.

The bipartisan landslide that would lock the clocks permanently on Daylight Saving Time and end the twice-yearly ritual America has endured since the 1960s.

Trump celebrated on Truth Social that same night.

"Big Vote today (48-1!) in the Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent!" he posted. "This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks. Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and the cost of renting, or using, Heavy Equipment to do this twice a year is prohibitive!"

He promised to work "very hard" to get it signed into law.

"It's time that people can stop worrying about the 'Clock,' not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production," Trump added.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., and backed in the Senate by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., was folded into the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act and now heads to the House floor.

The Sunshine Protection Act has 32 bipartisan House cosponsors and 18 in the Senate.

States that don't currently observe Daylight Saving Time – Hawaii and most of Arizona – would remain exempt.

The Science Is as Lopsided as the Committee Vote

This isn't a partisan debate. It's a public health emergency hiding in plain sight.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that "springing forward" is associated with a 10 to 24 percent spike in heart attack risk the following Monday and Tuesday.

Stroke rates jump 8 percent in the first two days following each time change.

Fatal car crashes increase by six percent during the first workweek after the spring switch, according to University of Colorado Boulder researchers who analyzed over 730,000 accidents.

Doctors at Rush University Medical Center put it plainly: the risk of stroke, heart attacks, and traffic accidents rises every single year in the days after the clocks change.

This happens every March.

It has happened every March for decades.

Washington did nothing.

Trump wants to stop it.

The One Senator Standing Between You and Permanent Daylight

The bill has a path – but it runs directly through Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who has made himself the single biggest obstacle to ending clock changes in the Senate.

Cotton personally blocked a fast-track effort in October 2025 and took to the Senate floor to warn that permanent Daylight Saving Time would make winter mornings "dark and dismal for millions of Americans."

He's pointed to history: Congress tried permanent Daylight Saving Time in 1974 during the oil embargo and repealed it less than a year later.

Here's what Cotton can't explain: only 12 percent of Americans want to keep changing clocks twice a year.

The other 88 percent have decided enough is enough – they just disagree on which permanent option to pick.

Trump has sided with the 56 percent who want longer, brighter evenings.

"We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day – And who can be against that – This is an easy one!" Trump posted.

The Senate passed this exact bill unanimously in 2022 – and one senator from Arkansas is the only thing standing between 330 million Americans and never touching their clocks again.

Trump is pushing. The House voted 48-1. The American people are behind him.

Cotton is the last domino.

Sources:

• Alex Nitzberg, "Trump Champions Bid to Nix Clock Changes by Adopting Permanent Daylight Saving Time," Fox News, May 22, 2026.
• "Lawmakers Advance Bill to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent," Time, May 22, 2026.
• "Long-Stalled Push to Make US Daylight Saving Time Permanent Hits Dead End," Reuters/AOL, October 2025.
• Martin Young, Ph.D., "From the Expert: The Link Between Daylight Saving Time and Heart Attacks," UAB News, March 2026.
• "How Daylight Saving Time Affects Your Health," Rush University Medical Center.
• "Does DST Make the Roads More Dangerous for Drivers and Pedestrians?" The Advocates, April 2026.