Hate Changing Your Clocks Twice a Year? Blame Pete Buttigieg

Yet one more scandal on the poorly led Division of Transportation

Most Individuals don’t love having to alter their clocks twice a yr for daylight saving time. An AP-NORC ballot from late 2019 discovered that 71 % of Individuals most well-liked a everlasting year-long time system. There is a bipartisan invoice designed to remove the controversial “fall back, spring forward,” but it surely’s being held up partly due to an unlikely supply: Pete Buttigieg, the scandal-plagued secretary of transportation.

The Washington Submit stories that Congress is unlikely to cross laws anytime quickly. The Sunshine Safety Act, cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Ed Markey (D., Mass.), wants extra assist from undecided lawmakers to realize traction.

Alas, a few of these undecided members of Congress advised the Submit they deliberate to withhold assist till the U.S. Division of Transportation, led by Buttigieg, finishes its ongoing overview of daylight saving time insurance policies. Presumably because of Buttigieg’s inexperience and lackadaisical management model, the overview is “not expected to be completed until year’s end.”

Buttigieg’s incapacity to reform our time system has been denounced by critics together with Jimmy Kimmel, the left-wing political activist and late-night tv host. “The last time Pete [Buttigieg] was on our show, I asked him to end [daylight saving time],” Kimmel stated in November 2021. “He said he’d see what he could do. You know what he did? He did nothing. He did nothing at all.”

It isn’t clear if Buttigieg even understands how daylight saving time works. “Here’s what 8 a.m. looks like on the western edge of the eastern time zone, a few days before daylight savings kicks in,” he wrote on Twitter in November 2018.

“I stand corrected,” he tweeted a number of minutes later. “Daylight Savings is underway, so it’s about to kick… out?”

Buttigieg is broadly thought of (with out proof) to be a rising star within the Democratic Occasion who will nearly definitely be elected president sometime. (He will not.)

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