{"id":958,"date":"2026-05-22T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:36:36","slug":"trump-says-hes-working-very-hard-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he\u2019s working \u2018very hard\u2019 to make daylight saving time permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>President Trump on Thursday praised a House committee for advancing a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, a rare moment of bipartisan accord between the Republican and Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat who has long supported the idea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=956\">Blanche thrust into Republican firestorm over $1.8b fund as he seeks to prove his loyalty to Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBig Vote today (48-1!) in the [House] Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent!\u201d Trump posted onTruth Social Thursday night. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks,\u201d the post continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Trump said the \u201cHouse will be attaching The Sunshine Protection Act to \u2018The Highway Bill.\u2019 &#8230; I am going to work very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law. It\u2019s time that people can stop worrying about the \u2018Clock,\u2019 not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>In a statement posted on X, the committee said it was \u201cproud to have advanced legislation to the House including the Sunshine Protection Act and making Daylight Saving Time permanent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The committee said the \u201cbill will generate hundreds of millions of dollars for our economy and put an end to disruptive time changes that needlessly disrupt Americans\u2019 schedule twice a year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>.@HouseCommerce is proud to have advanced legislation to the House including the Sunshine Protection Act and making Daylight Saving Time permanent.<\/p>\n<p>This bill will generate hundreds of millions of dollars for our economy and put an end to disruptive time changes that needlessly\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/DfN2fV2ygG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Energy and Commerce Committee (@HouseCommerce) May 21, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>While Trump in his celebratory post credited the GOP for \u201ca very nice WIN\u201d should the measure ultimately reach his desk, Markey has long advocated for the proposal, too. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In March 2022, as the Massachusetts senator was cosponsoring a Senate version of the effort to lock in daylight saving time year-round, Markey posted a playlist on X he had curated in 2021 to generated support for the measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It featured such hits as The Beatles\u2019 \u201cHere Comes the Sun,\u201d Sheryl Crow\u2019s \u201cSoak Up The Sun,\u201d and \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 Scooter Lee\u2019s \u201cWalking On Sunshine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re happy that the Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act today, then you might enjoy my playlist. https:\/\/t.co\/fggETKjmmx<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=954\">NATO allies bewildered by Trump\u2019s about-face on US troop moves in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) March 15, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>He also posted a separate video plugging the measure at the time. <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re walking on sunshine. pic.twitter.com\/ZFeDGJqGQn<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) March 15, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>A request for comment on Trump\u2019s post was sent to Markey\u2019s office on Friday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Markey is currently in a primary battle with Congressman Seth Moulton for the Senate seat. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Not everyone is on board with the daylight saving measure. Some public health experts voiced reservations in 2022 as Markey pushed a Senate version of the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ending the back-and-forth time switch between standard and daylight saving time would put an end to adverse health effects that come from the change, but doctors and sleep experts said at the time that Congress was going in the wrong direction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The better choice, many said, would be to make standard time \u2014 the zone we inhabit from November to March \u2014 the one true time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn their zeal to prevent the annual switch, the Senate has unfortunately chosen the wrong time to stabilize onto,\u201d Dr. Charles Czeisler, chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital said at the time. Sticking with daylight saving time all year would mean many people would be starting their days in darkness, he warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat the Senate passed [in 2022] would require all Americans to start their work and school an hour earlier than they usually do, and that\u2019s particularly difficult to do in the winter, when the sun is rising later.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Abandoning standard time is about more than enduring groggy, dark winter mornings. Shifting the day forward an hour for good would disrupt humans\u2019 natural circadian rhythms, and that\u2019s not good for us, experts say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur internal clock is not connected to the clock on the wall. It\u2019s connected to the sun clock, because that\u2019s how it\u2019s been for millennia,\u201d Dr. M. Adeel Rishi, a pulmonology, sleep medicine, and critical care specialist in Indianapolis and vice chair of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Public Safety Committee, said in 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRegardless of what happens on the clock on the wall, it does not change the relationship between our internal clocks and the sun clock.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report. This story will be updated when more information is released.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=952\">Pushed to the limit, Republicans show rare defiance to Trump\u2019s demands<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president on Thursday praised a House committee for advancing a bill that includes The Sunshine Protection Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump says he\u2019s working \u2018very hard\u2019 to make daylight saving time permanent - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=958\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump says he\u2019s working \u2018very hard\u2019 to make daylight saving time permanent - 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