Trump urges calls to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton in push for permanent daylight saving time

PBS NewsHour, MS NOW and CBS News report that President Donald Trump escalated a feud with Sen. Tom Cotton on Saturday by publishing what appeared to be the Arkansas Republican's personal cell number and telling supporters to phone him about the Sunshine Protection Act. The bill, which would keep clocks on daylight saving time year-round, passed the House in July, 308 to 117 according to CBS News, but has stalled in the Senate, where Trump complained that one member is enough to block it. Cotton, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, replied on X that he opposes the change because Congress repeatedly adopted and then reversed it after winters of very late sunrises, adding that he will "put Arkansas first." Trump retorted that more evening light and fewer clock changes would do that better, according to PBS NewsHour · MS NOW.

MS NOW adds that Trump also called Cotton a friend but criticized him in several posts since Friday, accusing him of acting out of ego; it notes other Republican senators also object. All three recall that Trump previously released Sen. Lindsey Graham's number, though MS NOW places it in a 2015 speech and the others in the 2016 nomination race.

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