Is Donald Trump putting an end to daylight saving time?



Americans have been struggling through daylight saving time their entire lives, but President Donald Trump is now considering putting an end to it.

“The House and Senate should push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day. Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!! DJT,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

In a report from 2016, it was estimated that daylight saving time cost the United States more than $430 million a year.

However, there are many others who disagree with the president on the basis of public health and safety.


In a previous report on PBS, experts — like Dr. Karin Johnson from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine — claim that darker mornings are horrible for sleep. The Academy recommends permanent standard time for sunnier mornings and darker evenings.

And in the same report from PBS, Dr. David Harkey of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety explains that a darker morning commute would result in more accidents.

“I mean, I don’t care one way or another if I’m being completely honest,” Eric July tells Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” “I’m pretty sure it’s very important, them up there debating whether or not we should move the clock back a f**king hour.”

“It really pisses me off,” he continues. “Because every year this pops up, and I’m like, ‘We’re really going to do it or don’t.’”

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Trump says he will eliminate Daylight Saving Time



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.

"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 on social media.

Rep. Eli Crane (R) of Arizona, an anti-DST state, praised the idea.

"President Trump is right. The rest of the country should follow Arizona’s lead. Let’s get this done," he said on social media.

Others have argued that the ideal would be to stay on DST and abolish standard time so that no one has to change clocks between the two twice a year. A 2024 poll found that a majority of Americans want to make DST permanent, but one study found that making standard time permanent could help prevent hundreds, if not thousands, of suicides per year.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas sided with the pro-standard-time people.

"Congress once made Daylight Saving Time permanent," he posted. "It was so unpopular that Congress repealed it less than a year later. The only sensible and durable way to stop the biannual time change is to make Standard Time permanent. I will work on this issue with @realDonaldTrump."

In 2022 CNN health reporter Jacqueline Howard argued that DST was racist because it disproportionately affected minorities by not allowing them to sleep and leading to worse health outcomes somehow.

"Essentially anything that produces physical and psychological stress is a threat to sleep health, and these stressors tend to be more prevalent in black communities," Howard wrote. "It is believed that discriminatory policies and practices across sectors of society create the physical and social conditions that make it more difficult for Black families to get optimal sleep and grow up healthy."

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CNN argues Daylight Savings Time disproportionately affects people of color because of structural racism and inequality of America's 'social systems'



CNN published a recent article arguing that Daylight Savings Time disproportionately affects people of color because of structural racism.

CNN health reporter Jacqueline Howard penned an article titled: "Daylight Saving Time sheds light on lack of sleep’s disproportionate impact in communities of color."

The article begins, "As the United States rolled back the clocks one hour this month to observe the end of Daylight Saving Time, many people got a bit more sleep than usual – but some not as much as others."

"Growing evidence shows that lack of sleep and sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, remain more prevalent in black, Asian, and Hispanic or Latino communities, and these inequities can have long-term detrimental implications for physical health, even raising the risk of certain chronic diseases," Howard contends.

Howard writes that "some sleep researchers worry about the potential effects that continuing to change standard time twice each year may have on sleep health inequities."

Howard included a quote from Chandra Jackson – a researcher and epidemiologist with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

“Poor sleep is associated with a host of poor health outcomes, including obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, including of the breast and colon," said Jackson – who has been studying racial and ethnic disparities in sleep. "Many of these health outcomes are more prevalent in the black population."

Howard alleges that "people of color appear to disproportionately experience" inequities in sleep health compared to white people. Without citing a source, Howard declares that people of color suffer sleep inequalities because it's "believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States."

The article claims that "many social and environmental determinants of health," such as living conditions and work schedules that are not conducive to a quality night's sleep, can be caused by "historical and persistent forms of structural racism."

Jackson believes that the inequality of health stems from the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, wages, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice.”

Jackson then references the 2020 shooting deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd's grandniece because they were shot when they were asleep. Jackson alleges that American's "systems of structural racism" can "cultivate conditions that make such incidents more likely to happen in black communities."

Jackson admits, "More research on the causes of disparities in sleep is needed." She adds, "Essentially anything that produces physical and psychological stress is a threat to sleep health, and these stressors tend to be more prevalent in black communities."

Jackson alleges, "It is believed that discriminatory policies and practices across sectors of society create the physical and social conditions that make it more difficult for Black families to get optimal sleep and grow up healthy."

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