The latest proposal advanced after the House Energy and Commerce Committee folded it into a broader transportation bill that was voted out of the committee on Thursday to be sent to the House floor.
Trump said he will work “very hard” to see the act signed into law, which he says will be a win for the Republican Party.
In 2022, the Senate passed a bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent across the country, but it stalled in the House. Sen. Rick Scott (R, Fla.) introduced the recent Senate version of the bill. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R, Fla.), who introduced similar bills in the past and sponsored the current House one, said in a statement that ending the clock change “is a commonsense reform that will improve everyday life for millions of Americans.”
Is DST popular?
The public is largely supportive of locking their clocks. An October 2025 AP-NORC nationwide poll shows that almost half of Americans oppose the practice of switching clocks twice yearly, and only 12% favor it. A YouGov survey conducted earlier this year found that about two-thirds of Americans want the practice abolished.
Current federal law allows states to exempt themselves from observing Daylight Saving Time by state law. Hawaii and most of Arizona don’t participate in Daylight Saving Time, and are on standard time all year round. But states have no authority to choose to be on permanent Daylight Saving Time.
Read More: The States That Don’t Observe Daylight Saving Time—and the Ones Trying to Stay in It Permanently
Trump has repeatedly called for clock-switching to end. In 2019, he said making Daylight Saving Time permanent would be “OK” with him. After winning the 2024 election, Trump said that Republicans would work to eliminate it.
It’s not the first time Daylight Saving Time has been pushed to be the standard. Clocks were moved forward an hour in 1942 during World War II—known as “War Time”—and then went back to normal after the war ended. In 1974, amid an energy crisis, the U.S. government implemented year-round Daylight Saving Time, but support plummeted as parents grew concerned about traffic accidents involving their children when the sun appeared to rise later in the morning. The time change was repealed just months later. Health experts have also pointed out that permanent standard time has evidentiary benefits on health and safety compared to permanent Daylight Saving Time.
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