Donald Trump disseminated Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) cellular telephone number via Truth Social on Saturday, expressing strong criticism toward Senate Republicans regarding their advancement of legislation designed to establish permanent daylight saving time.
“For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one! It should pass overwhelmingly, in a Bipartisan fashion. “To the Great People of Arkansas , please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself.
“Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill,” Trump wrote, highlighting the Sunshine Protection Act. Call Tom on his cellphone,” Trump said. “Let him know.”
The Sunshine Protection Act represents a proposed piece of federal legislation in the US that would establish Daylight Saving Time (DST) as a permanent standard throughout the nation, thereby eliminating the biannual practice of adjusting clocks.
Trump attributed the legislative stagnation of the bill—which he designated as the “No More Changing of Clocks Act”—to Cotton’s opposition following its passage in the House with a vote of 308-117. “If permanent daylight saving time becomes the law of the land, it will again make winter a dark and dismal time for millions of Americans,” he stated last year. In a Saturday post on Truth Social, Trump further contended that the legislation would benefit the PGA Tour, which he asserted “needs more Daylight in the afternoon in order to finish their Tournaments.”
