{"id":3312,"date":"2025-04-10T07:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2025-04-10T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:49:45","slug":"trump-repeals-biden-era-limit-on-water-flow-in-shower-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3312","title":{"rendered":"Trump Repeals Biden-Era Limit on Water Flow in Shower Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump\u2019s reversal on tariffs dominated headlines on Wednesday, but he also found time to continue his long-running feud with low-flow shower heads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president signed an executive order to loosen a restriction on water flow from shower heads, directing Energy Secretary Chris Wright to rescind a definition of shower heads first implemented by President Barack Obama. It echoes an effort by Mr. Trump\u2019s first administration \u2014 later stymied by the Biden administration \u2014 to drastically increase the amount of water that showers with multiple nozzles can use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNo longer will shower heads be weak and worthless,\u201d the White House <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-makes-americas-showers-great-again\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has a long-running crusade against low water pressure, an issue in some New York high-rises. In his first term, he lamented that his showers did not supply enough water for him to achieve his \u201cperfect\u201d hair. He aired that complaint again as he signed the order on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cI stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip, it\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new order restores language from a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ferc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-04\/epa1992.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">1992 federal law<\/a> that prevented new shower heads from spritzing more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Obama administration ordered that for showers with multiple nozzles, the 2.5-gallon limit applied to each shower head, not each nozzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Toward the end of Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, he enacted a rule that allowed each nozzle to pump out 2.5 gallons, with no restrictions on the total number of nozzles. The Biden administration rescinded that rule in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-showers-water-pressure.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s reversal on tariffs dominated headlines on Wednesday, but he also found time to continue his long-running feud with low-flow shower heads. The president signed an executive order to loosen a restriction on water flow from shower heads, directing Energy Secretary Chris Wright to rescind a definition of shower heads first implemented by President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-political-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}