President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to “make America’s showers great again” and reverse the “war on water pressure” created by the policies of former President Barack Obama and former President Joe Biden.
In Wednesday’s executive order, the president stated, “Overregulation chokes the American economy and stifles personal freedom. A small but meaningful example is the Obama-Biden war on showers: Twice in the last 12 years, those administrations promulgated multi-thousand-word regulations defining the word ‘showerhead.’”
Trump’s executive order directs the secretary of the Department of Energy to publish a notice that rescinds the “Energy Conservation Program: Definition of Showerhead.”
In a fact sheet accompanying the executive order, the White House said, “President Trump is restoring sanity to at least one small part of the federal regulations, returning to the straightforward meaning of ‘showerhead’ from the 1992 energy law, which sets a simple 2.5-gallons-per-minute standard for showers.”
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The White House added, “The Order frees Americans from excessive regulations that turned a basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare. No longer will showerheads be weak and worthless.”
Prior to the signing of the executive order on Wednesday, White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf introduced the executive order, noting that the Biden administration’s “war on showers” had “basically killed” the water pressure of American showers and other appliances, such as sinks, toilets, and dishwashers.
Trump slammed the federal water pressure regulations imposed by the Biden and Obama administrations as “ridiculous,” saying, “I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. You have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet.”
In Wednesday’s fact sheet, the White House explained that Trump attempted to reverse the water pressure regulations instituted under the Obama administration during his first term in office; however, Biden “undid this progress and the shower wars continued.”
“No market failure justifies this intrusion: Americans pay for their own water and should be free to choose their shower heads without federal meddling,” the White House added. “President Trump is slashing red tape and ending Biden’s dumb war on things that work.”
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