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Trump Posts Cotton's Phone Number Over Daylight Saving Bill
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In Short: President Donald Trump posted what appeared to be Sen. Tom Cotton's personal cellphone number on Truth Social, urging Arkansas residents to call and pressure Cotton to support legislation making daylight saving time permanent.
Trump's post came after the Arkansas senator blocked a bipartisan unanimous consent to move the Senate bill last fall.
The bill, known as the SAVE America Act, has garnered bipartisan support in the House, passing by a vote of 308–117 in July.
However, the bill has stalled in the Senate, with Cotton, a member of Republican leadership, opposing its passage.
Trump argued that permanent daylight saving time would decrease crime rates, reduce car accidents, and lower the risk of cardiac issues and seasonal depression.
In response, Cotton wrote on social media that he opposes the bill, stating, 'No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from 2025 shows that most Americans would prefer to keep the extra hour of daylight in the evening.
Cotton's opposition to the bill marks another setback for Trump, who has made the SAVE America Act a priority but has been unable to get it signed into law.
The bill would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active, but detractors argue that permanent daylight saving time would lead to darker and potentially more hazardous winter mornings.
The move came as the Senate is out of session until November, and it is unclear when the bill will be taken up again.
Congress remains deeply split on making daylight saving time changes permanent across the United States.
Americans will turn their clocks forward one hour this weekend as Daylight Savings Time begins.
The accounts agree that Trump posted Cotton's cellphone number and urged his supporters to call and pressure Cotton to support the bill.
What this adds
The accounts agree that Trump posted Cotton's cellphone number and urged his supporters to call and pressure Cotton to support the bill.
Background
The accounts agree that Trump posted Cotton's cellphone number and urged his supporters to call and pressure Cotton to support the bill.
What's confirmed
- "For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one. It should pass overwhelmingly, in a Bipartisan fashion," Trump posted on Truth Social.
- Fox News Digital called the phone number associated with the Dardanelle, Arkansas, area code but did not reach Cotton.
What's still developing
- The move came after Graham called Trump a "jackass" on CBS that morning.
- He described Cotton as “a friend of mine,” but nevertheless urged his followers to “call Tom on his cellphone” before posting a phone number with a northeast Arkansas area code.
- The Associated Press called the number, but no one answered and the voicemail box was full.
- It was a remarkable escalation on Trump's part of a longstanding fixation shared by both men — with Trump supporting making daylight saving time permanent, and Cotton vociferously opposed — at a time just weeks before the midterms, when Republicans would prefer that the president focus on talking about affordability issues and the party's achievements.
- Not all states observe it — and under the bill, states can opt out of the change if their respective legislatures act to do so before the bill's enactment.