Hate Changing Your Clocks Twice a Year? Blame Pete Buttigieg – By Andrew Stiles (Washington Free Beacon) / Mar 13, 2023
Yet another scandal at the poorly led Department of Transportation
Most Americans don’t like having to change their clocks twice a year for daylight saving time. An AP-NORC poll from late 2019 found that 71 percent of Americans preferred a permanent year-long time system. There’s a bipartisan bill designed to eliminate the controversial “fall back, spring forward,” but it’s being held up in part because of an unlikely source: Pete Buttigieg, the scandal-plagued secretary of transportation.
The Washington Post reports that Congress is unlikely to pass legislation anytime soon. The Sunshine Protection Act, cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Ed Markey (D., Mass.), needs more support from undecided lawmakers to gain traction.
Alas, some of those undecided members of Congress told the Post they planned to withhold support until the U.S. Department of Transportation, led by Buttigieg, finishes its ongoing review of daylight saving time policies. Presumably due to Buttigieg’s inexperience and lackadaisical leadership style, the review is “not expected to be completed until year’s end.”
