Trump Signs Executive Order to ‘Make America’s Showers Great Again’
The order essentially restores the original definition of “showerhead” from a 1992 energy law.
The winning continues as President Donald Trump’s pen continues to work overtime.
Trump has now signed an executive order to roll back federal regulations on water flow for showerheads, which he has criticized for years as overly restrictive. This move was part of his broader effort to reduce what he describes as burdensome regulations stemming from the Obama and Biden administrations.
On Wednesday, hours after implementing a 90-day pause on most reciprocal tariffs, Trump signed an executive order that orders the “repeal of the 13,000-word regulation defining ‘showerhead.'”
It specifically directs the secretary of energy (Chris Wright) to rescind the regulation defining “showerhead,” a change that affects how the water flow standard is enforced and removes the current limit.
The official Rapid Response 47 account posted a video of Trump speaking about the order while signing it. The caption stated: “@POTUS signs an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and Make America’s Showers Great Again.” In the video, Trump calls out long-standing water restrictions.
Minimum water efficiency standards for toilets, showerheads, faucets and urinals have been in place since the Federal Energy Policy Act was passed under President George H.W. Bush in 1992. That law required showerheads to not pour more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute.
@POTUS signs an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and Make America's Showers Great Again pic.twitter.com/NO4qaOj0xv
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 9, 2025
As if the rules stemming from Bush #1 make them more palatable. But, I digress.
This isn’t the first time there has been a battle over the water flow, either.
For over three decades, federal energy law has outlined appliance standards that determine new showerheads shouldn’t pour out more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute. The Obama administration refined the restrictions and applied those limits to the water that comes out of the entire showerhead, even ones with several nozzles.
During the first Trump administration, the president relaxed that to allow each nozzle of a showerhead to spray as much as 2.5 gallons.
The Biden administration reversed Trump’s action in 2021.
The order essentially restores the original definition of “showerhead” from the 1992 energy law, which allowed each nozzle in a multi-nozzle system to meet the 2.5-gallon-per-minute standard individually.
Trump has frequently targeted federal efficiency standards for appliances, including dishwashers, washing machines, and toilets, arguing that they compromise performance and convenience. He referred to these measures as part of a “radical green agenda” that prioritizes environmental goals over practical needs. So, I am looking forward to more regulatory rollbacks, especially from Energy Secretary Wright.
Furthermore, Trump has often cited his own frustrations with low water pressure, particularly in relation to washing his hair, as a driving force behind these regulatory changes.
“In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Mr. Trump quipped Wednesday afternoon from the Oval Office. “I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes till it gets wet. It comes out: drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”
Staffer: “If people want a low-flow shower head, they can buy one.”
Trump: “They don’t. Nobody wants one.”
“I like to take a long shower to take care of my beautiful hair & I have to stand under for 15 mins before it gets wet—drip. drip. drip.”
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) April 9, 2025
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This is a great beginning but I have other things on my deregulatory wish list:
1) a toilet that flushes
2) clothes and dishwashers that actually clean
3) incandescent light bulbs so my house doesn’t look like Times Square on meth.
I’m sure I can think of other things too.
Beat me to it on the toilet.
And me on the dishwasher. As soon as new old ones come out, I’m replacing mine. Not sure who will be in the WH next.
I am not going back to Incandescent bulbs. I like clean white light. And, I don’t want to replace dead change bulbs every month.
I agree, I like my 5000K bright white LEDs. Early LED bulbs were garbage, Lights of America were a complete waste of money.
One thing I really like are 4′ low weight and profile units that I can hang with 3M strips. I get light wherever I want them, and they can be removed with no damage to painted surfaces.
I find that i replace LEDs far more often than older incandescents. All chinese crap
Yup. They never last anywhere near the amount of time advertised, and ambient temperatures can affect their brightness. They suck, basically.
I found out that Home Depot will give you your money back or a new set of bulbs if you bother to take them back. We’ve all the three biggest lies joke but now there is a fourth and that is how long the new LED lights will last.
I use Philips and other brands throughout two homes and I haven’t had a problem with LED bulb reliability. They’ve been going, reliably, for five-plus years, now.
Branding is more important now than ever. There’s often a good reason why products from a name you know cost twice as much as products from Amazon sellers with names generated by Scrabble dice.
I use them to provide enough heat to keep my wheel head from freezing. I long ago switched to led lights around the house when they created different types of light. One lamp has 5 different types of light I can switch to. It should be a choice though
Seinfeld famously lampooned the shower head regs – but I’ve read of at least one study suggesting that – like the low-flush toilets requiring two flushes to doody the job – and the low-water dishwashers requiring running twice to remove all the food residue – folks with a low-pressure shower spend so much more time showering that they actually use MORE water before they finish their shower.
I agree that most low flush toilets are garbage, but I have one that works very well, I has 2 flush buttons, even the #2 uses very little water and it has never plugged up.
Yes. It’s human behavior.
Just like when companies implement new safety equipment and their injuries go UP. Not because the equipment doesn’t work, but because stupid people do stupid things and rely on the equipment to protect them instead of acting safely.
Sh&tlibs are miserable people who spend their time thinking up ways to make everybody else miserable.
Kamala was running a campaign supposedly based on ‘joy’, but they were just angry. Trashing and smashing everything good, leaving huge piles of garbage all over, both metaphorically and literally. Misery loves company.
There is a new Civil War on the horizon and I for one wish we’d get it on and over with already. They make war on us every day and we just act like it’s no big deal, giving up ground and encouraging them to ramp it up even more. All the time. When we finally stand up to them, they will fall apart like a cheap suit. Such crybullies. They got nothing.
well then this will in noooo wayy
affect the left
I figured out how to drill out the restrictors when they first implemented them. I have also retrofitted the nozzles on my gas can. Now it does not spill all over the tank on my lawnmower.
“Trump Repeals Regs, Makita Hardest Hit”
I finally got my hands on a real showerhead, without the idiotic restrictors. What a joy…my old shower head was like having someone pee on you instead of taking an actually shower.
undo the gas can nonsense.
There’s an underlying reason for all the stupid “protect the environment” laws re: appliances being put in place – despite not actually protecting the environment in practice once tried. California. And, in combo, Dems.
Whenever you have a state where intelligent development & management by govt is actually required to prevent an otherwise inevitable disaster, if the state /local is governed by Dems – expect disaster.
Let folks continue to build vast numbers of expensive buildings below sea level or in flood plains – while embezzling federal funds sent to shore up flood prevention dikes and infrastructure? Louisiana – and Dems.
Decline to spend the money experts tell you is required to modernize century-old fresh water infrastructure to keep it safe & keep up up with modern demand – but instead sans expert advice fiddle with an existing water plant increasing its output but not realizing it’s now poisoned? Michigan – and Dems.
Decline (for Green Reasons) to perform the expert-recommended forest management practices that will reduce the chance of and damage by your yearly wildfires? California – and Dems.
Decline (for whatever reasons) to spend the funds the experts say are needed to have sufficient water available for your growing population, industry, and farming (NTM the wildfires made worse by the para above) – but instead do a short-term “solution” by screwing the farmers and hoping low-water appliances will fix the problem on the cheap? Again, California – and Dems.
Anyone else notice a pattern here?
So do the EPA greenies think they’ll never get the water back? Do they believe that once the water comes out the shower head, that’s it? The water is gone from the earth forever?
This is akin to Joe Biden watching the bread go into the toaster and watching the toast come out and then wondering what happened to the bread.
The EO should have exempted Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden from the rollback by name.
I visit Japan fairly frequently. Gas, electricity, and water are expensive there particularly in the Tokyo area. However the Japanese let the market dictate people’s choices.
For example, electric clothes dryers are available but you have to be stupid rich to own one. Air conditioning? It’s cheaper to have two three mini-splits and run them in the room you’re occupying.
However toilets: how do you save water on toilet flushes? Well, the flush handle has two positions “small flush” and “large flush.” You – the person paying for the water- decide whIch is necessary….the government doesn’t do it for you.
Their food prices appear to be cheaper though at least according to the youtube channels I watch and you can get good cheap fresh food from their convenience stores unlike here. I imagine consumer goods there are more expensive since Japan used to use high domestic prices to offset their low export prices,
The food is cheap and high quality. Especially with the favorable weakness of the yen to the USD, I found prices to be very reasonable.
I’m reading all the comments above. My own experiences are as follows:
1) I have had ONE LED lamp (“bulb”) fail prematurely. FAR more have lasted beyond their rated life by far. One issue: an unvented ceiling can with an LED not made for it will eat LED lamps fast. This issue is being solved, but there it is.
1A) Color: buy 2700, 2850, or at most 3000K lamps and that garish appearance goes away. 2700 matches standard incandescent, 3000 matches tungsten-halogen. I still use 5000K in the garage for maximum “visual seeing”. (look it up)
1C) I see plenty of incandescent lamps for sale. 60W are now 54 or so. 75 are 67, and not sure what 100s are, but with more tightly-wound filaments the light outputs are close.
2) My low-gallonage toilets work fine, and have for decades. Some have needed more frequent cleaning. I DON’T use eleventy-two yards of tissue to “do the task” but use no less than I did in the old days.
2A) I had FAR more backups and overflows with the old ones than the new.
3) My various EA-compliant dishwashers have done amazingly good jobs, with NO degradation in performance. As for the far longer time: I start the dishwasher in the evening and unload it in the morning. They do not dry plastic-ware like the old ones, but don’t melt it either.
4) My experience with wash-plate top load washers has been terrible. I buy front loaders, and they clean just fine and – following every repairman’s recommendation of two tablespoons or so of detergent yields perfectly clean clothing. Mold? None. Why? Because I “R’d T F M”, that’s why.
However…!
1) I detest low-flow shower heads. Before cancer therapy took away much of my “fur”, rinsing off was a task. Getting shampoo out of a bushy beard is still; an issue.
2) Low-flow kitchen faucets. I need 5 quarts of water in a big pot. It takes longer to get that five quarts but it is still five quarts.
I will get showered with down-ticks for this, but, here goes: I think a lot of what people are talking about is stuff they are repeating.
OK! I’m putting an order in for my Commando 450 today.