Trump calls on the congress to make summer time permanent: nPR

This illustration photo shows a watch in the background of a smartphone, in which the time for daylight was implemented on March 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

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President Trump asks Congress to say goodbye to laws that would be permanent in the day – what if it was enacted, a long -term debate would put an end to whether the time in the United States should be changed twice a year.

Both the house and the Senate should “push for more daylight at the end of a day,” wrote the president on Friday morning about the social of truth.

“Very popular and, above all, no changes in the watches, a great inconvenience and a very costly event for our government !!!”, Trump also wrote.

Trump’s latest guideline follows the continuous efforts in the congress to say goodbye to summer time – including the Sunshine Protection Act, which was reintroduced in January by Republics Rep. Vern Buchanan and Senator Rick Scott by the Republicans of Florida. Another Republican in Florida, then. Marco Rubio had previously committed to the draft law, introduced it for the first time in 2018 and reintroduced it in 2021. The Senate passed the draft law 2022, but there was never a vote in the house.

Each state observes the summer time with the exception of two – Hawaii and Arizona, with the exception of the part of the Navajo nation, which is in the state. Us Territories American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the northern Mariana Islands don’t change their watch either.

Trump, who has supported the change for a long time and tweeted in 2019 that it “okay with me!” Was, seemed to mitigate his attitude when he called it as a “50/50 edition” at the beginning of March, three days before the clock in most parts of the country went one hour forward.

“I assume that people would have more light later, but some people want to have more light in the past because they don’t want to bring their children to school in the dark … Many people like it in one direction. Many people like it in the other,” he said in the Oval Office.

The topic was discussed during a hearing from the Senate on Thursday, in which the Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas changed the clock twice a year as “outdated and harmful practice”. Cruz also said that the change in the watches in the early 20th century made sense, but technological progress “has drastically reduced the relative energy price compared to the past”.

“If we take a closer look at the effects of the change in the watches, their effects on our economy, our health and our daily life, we can see that this practice is more than a trouble,” Cruz, Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Trade, Science and Transport. “The disturbance of the sleep patterns and the result of fatigue can have consequences for our productivity, mental health and our well -being.”

The Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware also said that the two -time changes from watches have a negative impact on the Americans and that “it is time to find out”.

“The back and forth time and the standard time have to change and stop,” she said. “We have to stop the clock. We have to find a solution and stay with it.”

While sleeping experts are concerned that switching the time is not good for health, some in the medical community also say that a permanent saving time in daylight may not be a good solution.

Dr. Karin Johnson, medical director of the Baystate Regional Sleep Medicine program, told NPR that a permanent time standard was more advantageous.

“The scientific and medical community is very important for us that we go into the permanent standard time, which is much more aligned with the sun in the sky and so better for our general health and our well -being,” said Johnson.