President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he supports repeal summer schedulecalling it “inconvenient” and “very expensive” because the directors of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are also pushing for measures on the matter.
“The Republican Party will do its best to eliminate Daylight Savings Time, which has a small but powerful constituency, but it shouldn’t! Daylight Savings Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump said. published on Truth Social Friday.
While Trump tweeted in 2019 that “Making Daylight Savings Time permanent is fine with me,” he now appears to be changing direction. DOGE directors, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk and Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, have defended it. time change to be deleted.
“Looks like people want to get rid of the annoying time change,” Musk posted in response to an X poll calling for DST to be scrapped.
“It’s efficient and easy to change,” replied Ramaswamy.
Any change would have to be approved by Congress, and legislation on the matter has been previously considered in recent years.
