The House voted 308-117 on Monday to pass the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, which would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States. No more springing forward. No more falling back. No more staring at the microwave clock in March wondering if you already fixed that one.
The opposition? Twenty-two Republicans and 95 Democrats.
Ninety-five Democrats voted against ending a thing roughly 70% of the country wants ended. Let that sit for a moment.
Rep. Vern Buchanan, Republican from Florida, put it plainly: "Floridians and Americans across the country are tired of the biannual time change. Permanent daylight saving time can improve public health, reduce traffic accidents, and lower crime." That's not a controversial statement. That's a summary of what study after study has found for decades.
The data backs him up. Traffic fatalities spike 17% on the Monday after the spring clock change. Your body loses an hour of sleep, your reaction time suffers, and the roads get more dangerous. Peer-reviewed research has documented this for years. Congress took until 2026 to care.
Here's the part that doesn't get enough attention: the whole thing was built on a lie.
Daylight saving time was sold as an energy-saving measure. A 2008 National Bureau of Economic Research study found it actually increases electricity demand by about 1%. We've been disrupting sleep schedules, spiking traffic fatalities, and rattling toddler bedtimes twice a year — for a policy that does the opposite of what it claimed to do.
President Trump threw his weight behind the bill on Truth Social, noting that the clock change costs "Hundreds of Millions of Dollars every year by people, Cities, and States." He added: "I am going to work very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law. A very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it!" Every business with scheduling software, every airline, every hospital shift rotation — the whole system hiccups twice a year for no reason anyone can articulate with a straight face.
The bill now heads to the Senate, which killed a similar effort before by simply never voting on it. The Senate's specialty is taking popular, bipartisan legislation and letting it decompose in a drawer. Trump's public push makes that harder this time.
The House did its job. The president is ready to sign. The public has been asking for this for years.
The only people standing in the way are 95 Democrats who apparently believe the twice-yearly clock ritual serves some purpose worth defending.
They haven't explained what that purpose is.
