Americans forced to change clocks again as Senate stalls Trump-backed daylight saving time bill

The Senate has not acted on a measure to let states keep daylight saving time all year, so Americans turned their clocks back an hour on Sunday morning as usual. President Donald Trump supports the change, which has broad voter appeal, and the House approved it in July by a bipartisan 307 to 117. Only 22 Republicans and 95 Democrats voted no. Since then, the proposal, called the Sunshine Protection Act, has stalled in the upper chamber, where lawmakers from both parties have raised objections, according to Fox News.

Trump has repeatedly urged senators to move, including this week while he campaigned for Republicans around the country. On Truth Social he accused the Senate of letting the bill die despite what he described as majority public demand, and he told senators to hold a vote. He also posted the personal cellphone number of Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, an ally and one of the bill's most outspoken critics, and asked supporters to call him.

Cotton answered that Congress has adopted year-round daylight saving time before and reversed itself each time, once people endured very late winter sunrises. He said Arkansas parents do not want children walking to school in darkness.

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