No, summer sunsets are not my issue. Winter sunsets are my issue. They are way too early for me even in the western part of the time zone, although of course it’s better in the western part than in the eastern part.

I think you missed the bigger factor: You live in the eastern part of the time zone, so sunset and sunrise come relatively early. If you lived in a place like Michigan at the western end of the time zone, DST would seem unnecessary, because summer sunsets are already pretty late. But in Boston and New York, without DST it would be getting dark at 7:30pm (and light at 4:30am).

Sounds like the President is listening to popular and polling results.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trumps-enthusiasm-ending-daylight-saving-time-wanes

… So there were “progressives” back in the 19th century, too…

DST was conceived:
when the vast majority of workers were agricultural.
when artificial illumination was inferior and scarce.
when commerce was limited to a specific time of day.

None of that applies in the 1st world – not for decades.

Here in Israel, DST is used by the Left as a club to inconvenience the large number of Sabbath-observing religious people for whom Friday night prayers – and dinner – are pegged to sunset. It also limits the ability of the religious to enjoy Saturday night activities.

(Which (parenthetically) brings up the idea of whether the ultimate demise of DST in this part of the world could be coordinated between the U. S., Canada and Mexico and the Caribbean all at once. That would probably be a good idea if it could be arranged. Of course, it would be realized much more easily if Canada were to be annexed.)

(not a morning person)

Economists have jumped into the debate. Daylight-saving time’s original selling point was to reduce energy use by making sunsets later in the day. New research questions that claim.

Preliminary findings from Yale economist Matthew Kotchen, with Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Erin Mansur and Steve Cicala, suggest that in some places daylight-saving time saves electricity, while in others it uses more, with the overall effect across the U.S. basically a wash. The upshot is that electricity saved by behavior such as leaving lights off until later in the evenings is spent in the darker mornings by doing things like turning on the lights to make sure our socks match.

Separately, traffic-flow data the researchers are analyzing suggest that daylight saving might lead people to drive more—which doesn’t exactly save energy either.

More driving is certainly the case when daylight-saving time starts each March, which is understandable: A lot of outdoor sports practices begin the week after the clocks change, for example. And Kotchen suspects it is also true across daylight-saving time in general: No matter what time the sun rises, most people aren’t going to hit the golf course or grab a meal with friends before they go to work.

Is it possible to save time and earn interest on it?

There are those who think it’s a problem when others won’t do as they do, sure. “Soviet power” can sort that out: make us call a deer a horse, make us call a man a woman, and make us call noon one o’ clock…