President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) aimed a pet peeve many Americans have when doing the simple daily task of taking a shower. The order called ‘Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads’ repeals the 13,000-word regulation defining ‘showerhead’.
Trump joked around in the signing ceremony saying, "I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair.”
Trump’s EO said, “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.”
“To the extent any definition is necessary for this common piece of hardware, the Oxford English Dictionary defines “showerhead” in one short sentence,” states the EO, “not the 13,000 words needed by Obama-Biden.”
According to the White House fact sheet: "The EO frees Americans from excessive regulations that turned a basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare.”
Trump promised on the campaign trail that he would eliminate onerous regulations that (over)reach into the lives an Americans. Under the Biden and Obama Administration government told Americans how to cook their food, how to heat their hot water, what kinds of cars to drive, and how much water you can use during s shower – among many other government directives. Big Brother kept getting bigger and bigger.
Trump, the House, and Senate have been steadily removing those overreaching government regulations and restoring basic choice on how to live their lives back to American families.
Trump also signed another EO called ‘Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations” this week. It says, “Promoting economic growth and American innovation are top priorities of this Administration. Unlawful, unnecessary, and onerous regulations impede these objectives and impose massive costs on American consumers and American businesses.”
Trump refers in the EO to recent Supreme Court decisions “that recognized constitutional boundaries on the power of unelected bureaucrats” to make regulations and “restored checks” on unlawful agency actions. “Yet, despite these critical course corrections, unlawful regulations -- now-superseded Supreme Court decisions -- remain on the books.”
To that end, Trump directed review and recommendations for repeal of any and all regulations that would be considered administrative agency overreach across the administration.
Congress is acting, too. In what the National Association of Home Builders described as “a win for housing affordability”, the Senate approved a congressional resolution that will block the Biden administration’s recent attempt to ban certain natural gas water heaters. The House already approved the resolution earlier this year. President Trump is expected to sign the measure soon.
It’s the fourth time that the current House and Senate voted to block as what have been considered overreaching Biden environmental rules under the Congressional Review Act.