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# Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again

The White House
April 9, 2025

UNDOING THE LEFT’S WAR ON WATER PRESSURE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make America’s showers great again.

- The Order directs the Secretary of Energy to immediately rescind the overly complicated federal rule that redefined “showerhead” under Obama and Biden.
- Twice in the last 12 years, those administrations put out massive regulations defining the word “showerhead.” The Biden definition was a staggering 13,000 words. The Oxford English Dictionary, by contrast, defines “showerhead” in one short sentence.
- 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.
- 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.

ROLLING BACK OVERREGULATION: Overregulation chokes the American economy, entrenches bureaucrats, and stifles personal freedom.

- Under Obama and Biden, the government issued lengthy rules—thousands of words long—redefining “showerhead” as a “nozzle” and making multi-nozzle showers illegal if they collectively discharged over 2.5 gallons of water per minute.
  - These changes served a radical green agenda that made life worse for everyday Americans.
  - President Trump sought to undo this definition in his first term by publishing extensive analysis and a formal rule—however, Biden undid this progress and the shower wars continued.
  - The government should not waste taxpayer time and money writing another elaborate definition for a term that has a simple definition.
  - No market failure justifies this intrusion: Americans pay for their own water and should be free to choose their showerheads without federal meddling.
- It’s not just showers—the Biden Administration aggressively targeted everyday appliances like gas stoves, water heaters, washing machines, furnaces, dishwashers, and more, waging war on the reliable tools Americans depend on daily.
  - These appliances worked perfectly fine before Biden’s meddling piled on convoluted regulations that made those appliances worse.
  - President Trump is slashing red tape and ending Biden’s dumb war on things that work.

DELIVERING ON PROMISES: By restoring shower freedom, President Trump is following through on his commitment to dismantle unnecessary regulations and put Americans first.

- President Trump: “We’re going to get rid of those restrictions. You have many places where they have water, they have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. But people buy a house, they turn on the sink, and water barely comes out. They take a shower, water barely comes out. And it’s an unnecessary restriction.”
- This Executive Order builds on actions President Trump has already taken to roll back overregulation and empower Americans, including:
  - Cutting red tape across federal agencies to unleash economic growth.
  - Repealing burdensome Biden-era executive actions that stifled freedom.
  - Fighting against radical green agendas that prioritize ideology over people.

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