For years, Congress has deliberated what to do about Daylight Savings Time. President Donald Trump told the Washington Reporter in his latest interview that this will likely be the last year that tens of millions of Americans spring forward and fall back.
“We’re going to [lock the clock],” the president said. Trump allies, especially from the Sunshine State, have pushed for bipartisan legislation to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent year-round.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.), another Trump ally in the Senate, is poised to take his longstanding advocacy for locking the clock directly to Montgomery, Alabama, once he succeeds Gov. Kay Ivey (R., Ala.), which is widely expected.
In 2025, Sen. Rick Scott (R., Fla) and Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.) teamed up with a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. Patty Murray (D., Wash.), Tuberville, Rand Paul (R., Ky.), Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.), Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), Ed Markey (D., Mass), Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), Martin Heinrich (D., N.M.), Alex Padilla (D., Calif.), Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii), Tina Smith (D., Minn.), and Katie Britt (R., Ala.) to pass the Sunshine Protection Act.
Trump told the Reporter that “we’re working on a bill now, and we’re going to be doing it. I hope we’re going to do it. We’re pushing it very hard.”
In 2022, Lankford’s version of the bill passed the Senate unanimously. This may be the year that he and his colleagues can celebrate an even brighter future.