围绕美国人时钟的争论在周末以一种出人意料的方式重新浮现，总统唐纳德·特朗普就这一问题与他的一位核心盟友发生了冲突。
The battle over Americans’ clocks reemerged in an unlikely way over the weekend, with President Donald Trump picking a fight with one of his top allies over the issue.
在特朗普第二任期执政的近两年里，国会中发生了许多争执，这些争执要么以党派胜利告终，要么无疾而终，但有一项议题尽管他向共和党人施压要求采取行动，却悄然被搁置一旁。
There have been many fights in Congress over the nearly two years that Trump has been in office for his second term that either ended in partisan victory or gloriously fizzled out, but one has quietly gone onto the shelf despite his pressure on Republicans to do something about it.
这场争执的核心在于允许各州自愿全年实行夏令时，从而实际上废除每年两次调整时钟的惯例。这一议题在选民和总统中颇受欢迎，今年夏天众议院已通过一项法案以实施这一变革。然而，这一政策问题在国会两党之间引发了分歧，并在参议院陷入停滞。
And that fight is over allowing states to voluntarily observe Daylight Saving Time year-round to effectively do away with the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks. It’s a popular issue with voters and the president, and there’s a bill that passed the House this summer to enact the change. But it’s a policy issue that has divided both sides of the aisle and ground to a halt in the upper chamber.
特朗普敦促参议院在众议院压倒性投票后，通过使夏令时永久化的法案。来自阿肯色州的共和党参议员汤姆·科顿是该法案最激烈的反对者之一，他誓言将阻止任何在参议院全院会议上快速推进该法案的尝试。这种抵抗招致了特朗普在“真实社交”平台上的发文，特朗普在周末分享了自己的个人电话号码，试图向这位议员施压，要求其改变对夏令时的立场。
TRUMP URGES SENATE TO PASS BILL MAKING DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME PERMANENT AFTER OVERWHELMING HOUSE VOTE Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has been one of the more vocal opponents of the bill, vowing to block any attempts to fast-track it on the floor. That resistance earned him a Truth Social post from Trump, who over the weekend shared his personal phone number in a bid to pressure the lawmaker to change his stance on Daylight Saving Time.
特朗普表示：“除了汤姆·科顿，几乎所有人都希望《阳光保护法》获得通过。致阿肯色州的伟大人民，请告诉你们的参议员，这对美国参议院乃至美国本身都将是一次伟大的两党胜利。”科顿对此作出回应，并指出国会此前曾处理过夏令时问题，但随后不久便撤销了相关变更。
"Almost everybody wants "The Sunshine Protection Act" to pass, except for Tom Cotton," Trumpsaid. "To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself." Cotton responded, and noted that Congress has tackled Daylight Saving Time before, only to roll back the change shortly after.
“没人喜欢调整时钟，我也不例外，但国会此前曾多次立法实行永久夏令时，而每次美国人在冬季经历荒谬地晚的日出后，又会将其废除，”科顿在X上表示。“阿肯色州的人不希望自己的孩子天黑蒙蒙亮就上学，而我会永远把阿肯色州放在首位。”特朗普因夏令时问题面临共和党内部反叛，参议院法案濒临搁浅。20世纪70年代，立法者确实曾推行全年夏令时。但美国人对这一调整迅速感到不满，尤其是那些孩子不得不在黑暗中等待校车的家长。大约一年后，这项政策便被废除。
"No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Saving Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter," Cotton said on X. "Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first." TRUMP FACES REPUBLICAN REBELLION OVER DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME AS SENATE BILL NEARS DEAD END In the 1970s, lawmakers did enact year-round Daylight Saving Time. But Americans rapidly soured on the change, especially parents whose children had to wait in the dark for the school bus. It was repealed about a year later.
据一位消息人士向福克斯新闻数字版透露，科顿最近在一次每周举行的闭门政策午餐会上，回答了一位共和党同僚的即兴提问时，也表达了与回应特朗普时类似的观点。会议期间，没有人提出反对。
And Cotton recently answered an off-the-cuff question from a fellow Republican during their weekly closed-door policy lunches, a source told Fox News Digital, where he made a similar case as his response to Trump. No one pushed back during the meeting.
夏令时问题，以及支持永久调整还是维持现状，更多是地理因素而非政治因素所致。
The issue of Daylight Saving Time, and supporting a permanent fix or sticking to the status quo is more geographical than political.
这某种程度上是山地和西部各州与沿海各州之间的分歧。一方是参议员里克·斯科特（佛罗里达州共和党）和帕蒂·默里（华盛顿州民主党）等立法者，他们去年提出了该法案的参议院版本。
It’s, in part, mountainous and Western states versus coastal states. On one side of the spectrum are lawmakers like Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., who introduced a Senate version of the bill last year.
“每年都有更多美国人对反复调整时钟感到愈发沮丧，而每到冬季，华盛顿州的民众都会因被迫结束夏令时、失去宝贵的一小时阳光而绝望，”默里当时在一份声明中表示。
"Every year, more Americans grow more frustrated setting their clocks back and forth, and every winter folks in Washington state despair at the prospect of losing an hour of precious sunlight when we are forced off Daylight Saving Time," Murray said in a statement at the time.
众议院通过夏令时改革，特朗普暗示支持结束时钟调整。与此同时，西部内陆各州的立法者，如参议员史蒂夫·戴恩斯（蒙大拿州共和党）和迈克·朗兹（南达科他州共和党）则警告称，这一改革将导致他们州的孩子在黑暗中上学。
HOUSE PASSES DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME REFORM AS TRUMP SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR ENDING CLOCK CHANGE While lawmakers in landlocked states out West, like Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., warn that it would cause kids in their states to go to school in the dark.
“我能理解佛罗里达州为何在一年中的某些时段喜欢这个安排，因为那能让他们抢到理想的开球时间，但对于蒙大拿州西部的父母来说，日出要到上午9点半，他们没法在这么晚的时候把孩子送上校车。这对我们行不通，”戴恩斯在七月接受美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）采访时表示。
"I can see where Florida likes it for tee times at certain times of the year, but it doesn’t work so well for moms and dads putting kids on buses when the sunrise in Western Montana wouldn’t be till 9:30 in the morning. It’s not going to work for us," Daines told CNN in July.
参议院最关键的资源是议事时间。而在十一月中期选举后重返华盛顿的议员们，将没有太多富余的议事时间。尽管该议题颇受欢迎，但更紧迫的议题，如《国防授权法案》、战争补充拨款以及迫在眉睫的政府拨款之争，很可能会优先处理。
The most vital currency in the Senate is floor time. And lawmakers won’t have much floor time to spare when they return after the midterm elections in November. Though it’s popular, more pressing issues like the National Defense Authorization Act, supplemental funding for the war and a looming government funding battle will likely take precedence.
共和党领导层也承认，对于两党议员而言，这并非一个简单的“是”或“否”的投票。
And Republican leaders acknowledge that it’s not as easy a simple yes-or-no vote for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
参议院多数党鞭、怀俄明州共和党参议员约翰·巴拉索在七月表示：“这取决于你住在美国的哪个地方，以及它对你所在州的影响。所以，这并不像某个州所希望的那样简单。”
"Depends where you're living in the country and the impact — what it would be, in your own home state," Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in July. "So it's not as simple as what one state might like."