President-elect Donald Trump issued a brief statement saying that Republicans would work to end Daylight Saving Time.
DST was proposed by Ben Franklin in 1784 as a way to increase productivity by allowing people more time to sleep when it is dark. The policy was adopted in 1918 in the U.S., but many states refuse to participate, including Arizona, Hawaii, and the territory of Puerto Rico.
‘Daylight Saving Time … has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!’
Trump offered an explanation why he believes ending DST is in Americans’ interests.
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“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,” he wrote
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