By Chandelis Duster

President Trump is urging Congress to pass legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent — which, if enacted, would put an end to a longstanding debate over whether to change the time in the U.S. twice a year.

Both the House and Senate should “push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day,” the president wrote Friday morning on Truth Social.

“Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!,” Trump also wrote.

The latest directive from Trump follows ongoing efforts in Congress to adopt daylight saving time — including the Sunshine Protection Act, which was reintroduced in the House and Senate by Florida Republicans Rep. Vern Buchanan and Sen. Rick Scott in January. Another Florida Republican, then-Sen. Marco Rubio, had previously championed the bill, first introducing it in 2018 and reintroducing it in 2021. The Senate passed the bill in 2022, but it never came to a vote in the House.

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