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Trump Wants To Eliminate Daylight Saving Time

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Mariane Angela

President-elect Donald Trump took to social media Friday to announce his intention to abolish daylight saving time.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized daylight saving time for its inconvenience and economic costs to the nation. He said he would try to eliminate the practice once he returns to office.

“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” Trump wrote.

The practice of advancing clocks by an hour each spring and resetting them back in the fall was originally implemented in 1942 as a wartime effort to conserve energy by making better use of daylight, according to The Associated Press. Despite its long-standing place in American life, daylight saving time has consistently faced scrutiny and calls for its elimination.

In Congress, efforts to end the biannual time change have emerged periodically, AP reported. The most significant recent legislative push was the Sunshine Protection Act 2023, a bipartisan proposal led by Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Trump has nominated Rubio to serve as his secretary of state.

Rubio’s proposal aimed to make daylight saving time permanent, but it has since stalled.

Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott also weighed in on the matter.

“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Scott said.

This isn’t the first time Trump has backed the movement to adopt permanent standard time and eliminate daylight saving time.

“Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!” Trump posted in 2019.

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Liberals Have Cut Canada’s Electric Vehicle Subsidies, Now It’s Time to Kill the 2035 Mandate

Published on January 18, 2025

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Former Liberal MP Dan McTeague calls on Mark Carney and all other leadership candidates to kill Trudeau’s electric car mandate.

President of Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE) and former Liberal MP Dan McTeague says, “It’s good that the Trudeau government are ending their taxpayer funded electric vehicle subsidy, but it’s time to take the most important step of all and kill the government’s mandate that all vehicles bought in Canada be battery powered by 2035.”

As of January 10th, Transport Canada announced that it “paused” its financial incentive to purchase electric vehicles which had provided up to $5,000 of taxpayers money to anyone who purchases an electric vehicle. Quebec ended its $7,000 subsidy last February. However, the government policy requiring that every car sold in Canada after 2035 be electric remains in force.

“Even with these giveaways in place, it was a stretch for hard working Canadians to afford an EV,” said McTeague. “We at CAE are happy for Canadian taxpayers that the program is coming to an end. But this move must be followed up by abolishing the mandates on unaffordable electric vehicles once and for all.”

“My hope is that each and every Liberal Leadership candidate stands up and acknowledges that mandating that all new cars in Canada be electric by 2035 is wrong and that that policy needs to be scrapped,” added McTeague.

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TikTok CEO, Trump respond to SCOTUS ruling

Published on January 18, 2025

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew responded to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday allowing a ban of the social media app to go into effect, saying he hopes to work with President-elect Donald Trump on a solution.

Trump posted on Truth Social that the Supreme Court’s Friday decision was expected. He noted that his own decision over the platform would be made soon and said, “Stay tuned!”

The CEO posted to the app on Friday following the ruling, thanking Trump for supporting the platform’s efforts to be accessible in the United States.

“I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States,” he said. “This is a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship.”

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The outgoing Biden administration stated they would be leaving the ban up to the incoming administration.

“Given the sheer fact of timing, this Administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next Administration, which takes office on Monday,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

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