President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday targeting water pressure regulations implemented by former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, touting that the action will make “America’s Showers Great Again.”
“Overregulation chokes the American economy and stifles personal freedom. A small but meaningful example is the Obama-Biden war on showers,” Trump wrote in the executive order.
The president’s order scraps “multi-thousand-word regulations defining the word ‘showerhead’” authored during the Obama administration and reimposed by the Biden administration after Trump relaxed showerhead water flow standards during his first term.
“To the extent any definition is necessary for this common piece of hardware, the Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘showerhead’ in one short sentence,” Trump noted, directing Energy Secretary Chris Wright to “immediately rescind the overly complicated” Obama-Biden era federal rule on showerheads.
Trump’s order will return showerhead water flow standards to the 2.5-gallons-per-minute rule that had been in place since 1992, according to the White House.
“President Trump is restoring sanity to at least one small part of the federal regulations,” the White House said in a statement.
“The Order frees Americans from excessive regulations that turned a basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare,” the statement continued. “No longer will showerheads be weak and worthless.”
The White House argued that the Obama-Biden regulation served “a radical green agenda that made life worse for everyday Americans” and made some multi-nozzle showers “illegal.”
Trump’s order applies to sinks and dishwashers as well.
“No market failure justifies this intrusion,” the White House said of the regulations being slashed by Trump. “Americans pay for their own water and should be free to choose their showerheads without federal meddling.”
“President Trump is slashing red tape and ending Biden’s dumb war on things that work.”
