US President-elect Donald Trump announced that he is renewing his efforts to end daylight savings in a Friday post to Truth Social.
The former president stated that 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 added.
Top advisors respond
Members of Trump's inner circle have also supported changing the US to be permanently on daylight-saving time.
"Looks like the people want to abolish the annoying time changes!" Elon Musk tweeted last month in response to an X/Twitter poll on whether or not to abolish daylight savings.
Musk, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, will be heading Trump's newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted in response: "Leave it daylight savings time always."
Ramaswamy wrote on X that "It’s inefficient & easy to change."
Trump first tried to permanently change the US's daylight saving time in 2019 after several states proposed local legislatures on the matter.
In 2022, Senator Marco Rubio (R—Florida), Trump's pick for Secretary of State, introduced legislation to make daylight saving time permanent in the US Senate. However, the bill did not pass the House of Representatives.