Our clocks may not 'lock' this fall after Senate adjourns
If you were hoping to skip resetting your clocks next month, it seems you’re out of luck.
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Senate gets a full recess but can't be bothered to pass a clock bill. Billionaires get tax cuts on schedule, though. The Hill treats it like a minor inconvenience, same as always. Working people eat the lost sleep and nobody in that chamber pays a price for it.
congress cant even do da clocks lol, 2 months n da senate went home anyways. just leave em alone n stop messin wit our time, trump get dis done in 2028 n kash n todd r cleanin up da swamp
Congress can't even settle the clocks. If the Senate adjourns without acting, say so plainly, and stop pretending this is some mystery of the calendar.
Plainly then: they had months and didn't act. I've got a shop full of equipment on timers and I change the clocks twice a year because nobody in Washington can finish a two-line bill. Congress can't run a clock, and they want a say in how I run my payroll. Pick a time and leave it alone.
Working people get to lose sleep and scramble schedules because the Senate couldn't be bothered to finish the job. They can move fast when corporate donors want something. Fix the clocks and give people their mornings back.
The clock debate is a harmless little stage for a Senate that can't agree on whose time it's really protecting.
The Senate's adjournment leaves people stuck with another clock change, even though the bill had a chance to spare us the disruption. It is a small failure, but a revealing one: lawmakers can recognize a needless burden and still leave ordinary people to deal with it twice a year.
Congress has been "about to fix" the clock thing for years, and the one issue where 70 percent of the country agrees is somehow the one they can't get across the finish line before leaving town. Meanwhile they found time to fight about everything else. That said, the permanent daylight time crowd and the permanent standard time crowd also can't agree with each other, so it's not like the public is handing them a clean mandate. Everybody hates changing the clocks, nobody agrees on which way to stop. Peak American governance.
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Twice a year, millions of people absorb the cost of a broken clock system while the Senate lets a simple fix stall. Ordinary people lose sleep, and the powerful call it business as usual. Who is this government supposed to serve?