Trump promises to eliminate ‘inconvenient’ and ‘costly’ daylight saving time

President-elect Donald Trump unveiled a new priority for his administration, promising to end daylight saving time in his second term.

He made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, dismissing the practice as “very costly” to the country.

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

Some expressed confusion about the announcement, pointing out that eliminating and making daylight saving time permanent are two very different things.

“Ok does he mean permanent standard time? or permanent daylight savings time like a lot of people want? because there is a big (1 hour) difference!” the Hill’s Emily Brooks

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