Earlier this year President Trump suggested there were strong feelings on both sides of the Daylight Savings Time debate, which led me to believe he hadn’t taken a position himself. But today he made clear that he has indeed taken a position and wants an end to the “changing of the clocks”, telling Republicans they need to make DST permanent.

Here’s what he said:

The House and Senate should push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day. Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!! DJT

Polls do show that a majority want DST ended and I think it would be wonderful to have more daylight in the evenings year around. But will Republicans actually do it?

UPDATE: I had idea backwards and I corrected it.