President Donald J. Trump has signed an Executive Order aimed at overturning federal regulations on shower heads, reviving a campaign promise to reduce bureaucratic overreach and restore what he calls "shower freedom." 
The order directs the Secretary of Energy to immediately rescind rules introduced under the Obama and Biden administrations that redefined "shower head" in extensive detail. The Biden-era version, Trump officials noted, spanned an extraordinary 13,000 words.
'President Trump is restoring sanity to at least one small part of the federal regulations,' the White House said, pointing to the original 1992 energy law standard of 2.5 gallons per minute. 'No longer will shower heads be weak and worthless.'
The move comes as part of a wider push to cut back what the Trump administration describes as "radical green" regulations. Under previous Democratic leadership, multi-nozzle showers were restricted if they collectively exceeded the 2.5-gallon flow rate, which the administration says amounted to excessive interference in consumer choice.
'Overregulation chokes the American economy, entrenches bureaucrats, and stifles personal freedom,' the White House stated. 'No market failure justifies this intrusion: Americans pay for their own water and should be free to choose their shower heads without federal meddling.'
President Trump added, '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.'
The Executive Order builds upon a wider deregulation agenda that includes repealing restrictions on appliances such as gas stoves, washing machines, furnaces, and water heaters. According to the White House, such rules "made those appliances worse" and failed to reflect how Americans live.
With this latest move, President Trump reaffirms his intention to 'end Biden's dumb war on things that work and deliver on promises' by putting practical needs over "convoluted" environmental policies.
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