{"id":2410669,"date":"2025-03-06T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-not-sold-on-push-to-change-daylight-saving-time-50-50-issue\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:41:59","slug":"trump-not-sold-on-push-to-change-daylight-saving-time-50-50-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-not-sold-on-push-to-change-daylight-saving-time-50-50-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump not sold on push to change daylight saving time: \u201950-50 issue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-not-sold-on-push-to-change-daylight-saving-time-50-50-issue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2410669&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump has \u200bexpressed skepticism about changing the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-gov-kay-ivey-signs-daylight-saving-time-bill\/\" title=\"Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Signs Daylight Saving ... Bill\">daylight saving time<\/a>\u2064 system, \u2063labeling it a &#8220;50-50 issue.&#8221; As the nation transitions to\u2062 daylight saving time, the topic\u2063 of adjusting the system \u2062reignites public debate.Trump acknowledged\u2062 mixed\u200c opinions on \u200bthe matter, with some\u2062 individuals preferring extended daylight in the\u200d evening, while others \u2064favor \u200bmore sunlight in the morning\u2063 for activities like school drop-offs.Despite previous calls\u2064 for abolishing \u200bdaylight saving time, he highlighted the lack of consensus on the issue, making \u2062action challenging. Lawmakers \u200chave attempted to \u2062legislate\u200b changes, including \u2064a \u200cprior unsuccessful effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-group-of-senators-reintroduce-bill-to-enact-year-round-daylight-saving-time\/\" title=\"Bipartisan Group Of Senators Reintroduce Bill To Enact Year-Round ...\">make daylight saving time permanent<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump not sold on push to change daylight saving time: &rsquo;50-50 issue&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2030373\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is not convinced of changing the current daylight saving time system, calling it a &ldquo;50-50 issue&rdquo; even as the modification has been floated by one of his top advisers.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, the country, with the exceptions of Arizona and Hawaii, will move from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-john-mcafee-send-this-tweet-about-files-he-has-in-his-condo-near-miami-beach\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did John McAfee Send This Tweet About Files He Has In His Condo Near Miami Beach?\">standard time<\/a> to daylight saving time as part of the biannual time adjustment. The changeover typically renews the debate on whether standard time should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-deny-congresswomans-request-to-open-capitol-hill-for-sledding\/\" title=\"Capitol Police Deny Congresswoman\u2019s Request To Open Capitol Hill For Sledding\">remain permanent<\/a> rather than changing the time twice a year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3339484\/trump-gives-mexico-reprieve-tariffs-not-canada-trudeau\/\">Trump extends tariff exemptions to Canada after dustup with Trudeau<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3339577\/trump-calls-bowser-clean-up-dc-homeless-encampments\/\">Trump calls on Bowser to clean up DC encampments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3339701\/trumps-address-to-congress-outpaced-bidens-final-state-of-the-union-speech\/\">Trump&#8217;s address to Congress outpaced Biden&#8217;s final State of the Union speech<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Elon Musk, the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency efforts in the White House, has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3248510\/musk-and-ramaswamy-want-to-end-daylight-savings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"expressed\">expressed<\/a> a desire to abolish the &ldquo;annoying&rdquo; change. Trump has also called for an end to daylight saving time in the past. When asked about getting rid of daylight saving time in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump changed his tone, noting that there is no clear consensus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">POTUS on Daylight Savings: &#8220;It&#8217;s a 50\/50 issue and if something is a 50\/50 issue, it&#8217;s hard to get excited about it. I assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier because they don&#8217;t want to take their kids to school in the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ytn6C0AMRS\">pic.twitter.com\/ytn6C0AMRS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1897741126309982210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This should be the easiest one of all, but it&rsquo;s a 50-50 issue, and if something&rsquo;s a 50-50 issue, it&rsquo;s hard to get excited about it,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;I assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier because they don&rsquo;t want to take their kids to school in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And it&rsquo;s very much &mdash; it&rsquo;s a little bit one way &mdash; but it&rsquo;s very much a 50-50 issue. It&rsquo;s something I can do, but a lot of people like it one way, a lot of people like it the other way. It&rsquo;s very even. And usually, I find when that&rsquo;s the case, what else do we have to do?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3339757\/trump-cabinet-meeting-musk-instruct-agency-leaders-work-doge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TRUMP CONVENES CABINET MEETING WITH MUSK TO INSTRUCT AGENCY LEADERS TO WORK WITH DOGE\">TRUMP CONVENES CABINET MEETING WITH MUSK TO INSTRUCT AGENCY LEADERS TO WORK WITH DOGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have attempted to change the dynamic through legislation. In 2022, then-Sen. Marco Rubio&rsquo;s effort to make daylight saving time permanent passed in the Senate, but the House of Representatives did not vote on his bill, and it died before getting to the president&rsquo;s desk.<\/p>\n<p>While most <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">lawmakers proposed making daylight saving time permanent<\/a>, Trump&rsquo;s proposal in a December 2024 Truth Social post would make standard time permanent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2030373\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2030373\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump skeptical about changing daylight saving time: &#8220;50-50 issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2410670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/donald-trump-speech-white-house-march-2025.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50410,46768,4902,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2410669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-controversy-2","tag-daylight-saving-time","tag-opinion","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/donald-trump-speech-white-house-march-2025.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410673,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410669\/revisions\/2410673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}