Today, I extend my heartfelt greetings to the people of Australia as we commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Seaa pivotal moment in the fight against tyranny and a defining chapter in the enduring alliance between our two nations.
At the height of World War II, American and Australian forces fought for 4 grueling days against enemy naval and air forces at the Coral Sea. Through their heroic bravery, their unwavering resolve, and the grace of Almighty God, our Allied forces halted at great cost a major enemy advancement for the first time in the Pacific Theatre, and sank an enemy aircraft carrier for the first timemarking a significant turning point in the war and paving the way for the enemys eventual defeat.
As we commemorate this historic battle, we also remember the 656 Allied service members who gave their lives for our liberty. The courage of those fallen heroes not only changed the course of the war but also forged a glorious bond between the United States and Australia that endures to this daya friendship that remains foundational to Indo-Pacific security and prosperity.
Today, we honor the fearless determination of those who fought at the Coral Sea, and we solemnly remember those who laid down their lives to secure the future of freedom. Their sacrifice will forever be etched in our hearts, and our nations remain eternally grateful.
The American Nurses Association (ANA)has been championing the interests of registered nurses for more than 125 years. National Nurses Week begins May 6 and ends on Florence Nightingale's birthday, May 12th. In 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day. In 2003 National School Nurse Day was added to be celebrated on the Wednesday of the declared week. On May 6, 2025, President Trump issued a Message on National Nurses Day, 2025declaring:
On National Nurses Day, we thank the extraordinary men and women who have dedicated their lives to the critical and noble profession of nursingproviding quality, compassionate, and essential care to all patients.
Nursing is our Nations largest healthcare profession, with an estimated 4.3 million actively licensed registered nurses. From the frontlines of war to our local hospitals, nurses have shown an unwavering commitment to those in need, serving others and providing hope, help, and healing during times of crisis.
Nurses are providing critical care to millions of Americans struggling with chronic diseases. Six in ten Americans live with at least one chronic disease, and four in ten are affected by two or more chronic diseases. These numbers have increased significantly in recent years, causing hardships for the Americans suffering from these conditions while putting immense pressure on our healthcare system. My Administration recognizes this critical issue and is committed to Making America Healthy Again. Through our initiative, we will address the root causes of chronic disease, reduce its prevalence, and ensure that nurses have the support they need in order to continue providing life-saving care.
We are also refocusing Public Service Loan Forgiveness on its original intent of encouraging Americans to enter essential public service roles, such as nursing. By doing so, we hope to inspire a new generation of Americans to pursue careers in vital public services, contributing to a healthier, stronger Nation.
Nurses reflect the character of America and epitomize the inexhaustible capacity of the human spirit. As we stand at the threshold of our new Golden Age, our nurses stand ready to make America stronger and healthier than ever before. On this National Nurses Day, Melania and I join with every citizen in extending our wholehearted gratitude and utmost respect to these invaluable healthcare professionals.
Johnson & Johnson announced a $55 billion investment over the next four years in manufacturing, research and development, and technology.
Roche, a Swiss drug and diagnostics company, announced a $50 billion investment in U.S.-based manufacturing and research and development, which is expected to create more than 1,000 full-time jobs and more than 12,000 jobs including construction.
Bristol Myers Squibb announced a $40 billion investment over the next five years in its research, development, technology, and U.S.-based manufacturing operations.
Eli Lilly and Company announced a $27 billion investment to more than double its domestic manufacturing capacity.
Novartis, a Swiss drugmaker, announced a $23 billion investment to build or expand ten manufacturing facilities across the U.S., which will create 4,000 new jobs.
AbbVie announced a $10 billion investment over the next ten years to support volume growth and add four new manufacturing plants to its network.
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced it will invest an additional $2 billion over the next four years to enhance and expand its U.S. manufacturing operations and strengthen its innovation efforts.
Merck & Co. announced it will invest a total of $9 billion in the U.S. over the next several years after opening a new $1 billion North Carolina manufacturing facility including in a new state-of-the-art biologics manufacturing plant in Delaware, which will create at least 500 new jobs.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a leader in biotechnology, announced a $3 billion agreement with Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies to produce drugs at its North Carolina manufacturing facility.
Kimberly-Clark announced a $2 billion investment to expand its U.S. manufacturing operations, including a new advanced manufacturing facility in Warren, Ohio, an expansion of its Beech Island, South Carolina, facility, and other upgrades to its supply chain network.
Amgen announced a $900 million investment in its Ohio-based manufacturing operation.
Abbott Laboratories announced a $500 million investment in its Illinois and Texas facilities.
India-based Sygene International announced a $36.5 million acquisition of a Baltimore biologics manufacturing facility.
LGM Pharma announced a $6 million investment to expand its manufacturing facility in Rosenberg, Texas.
The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government. The injection of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our institutions has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy. Orders to open the borders have endangered the American people and dissolved Federal, State, and local resources that should be used to benefit the American people. Climate extremism has exploded inflation and overburdened businesses with regulation.
To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen. The revocations within this order will be the first of many steps the United States Federal Government will take to repair our institutions and our economy.
He rescinded a series of actions created by the Biden Administration and instructed agency heads to act immediately to implement these revisions. Unfortunately, the order only specified DEI regulations.
The ever-expanding morass of complicated Federal regulation imposes massive costs on the lives of millions of Americans, creates a substantial restraint on our economic growth and ability to build and innovate, and hampers our global competitiveness. Despite the magnitude of their impact, these measures are often difficult for the average person or business to understand, as they require synthesizing the collective meaning not just of formal regulations but also rules, memoranda, administrative orders, guidance documents, policy statements, and interagency agreements that are not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, further increasing compliance costs and the risk of costs of non-compliance. It is the policy of my Administration to significantly reduce the private expenditures required to comply with Federal regulations to secure Americas economic prosperity and national security and the highest possible quality of life for each citizen. To that end, it is important that for each new regulation issued, at least 10 prior regulations be identified for elimination. This practice is to ensure that the cost of planned regulations is responsibly managed and controlled through a rigorous regulatory budgeting process.
And announcing the new policy:
. . .to be prudent and financially responsible in the expenditure of funds, from both public and private sources, and to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people.
Defining:
. . . the term regulation or rule means an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy or to describe the procedure or practice requirements of an agency, including, without limitation, regulations, rules, memoranda, administrative orders, guidance documents, policy statements, and interagency agreements, regardless of whether the same were enacted through the processes in the Administrative Procedure Act, but does not include:
(a) regulations issued with respect to a military, national security, homeland security, foreign affairs, or immigration-related function of the United States;
(b) regulations related to agency organization, management, or personnel; or
(c) any other specific regulation or category of regulations exempted by the Director, who shall exempt those regulations or categories of regulations that impose minimal costs or burdens on the private sector or that are requested to be exempted by the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff or the Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
He also placed a regulatory cap for fiscal year 2025:
(a) Unless prohibited by law, whenever an executive department or agency (agency) publicly proposes for notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new regulation, it shall identify at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed.
(b) For fiscal year 2025, which is in progress, the heads of all agencies are directed to ensure that the total incremental cost of all new regulations, including repealed regulations, being finalized this year, shall be significantly less than zero, as determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Director), unless otherwise required by law or instructions from the Director.
(c) In furtherance of the requirement of subsection (a) of this section, any new incremental costs associated with new regulations shall, to the extent permitted by law, be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least 10 prior regulations.
(d) The Director shall provide the heads of agencies with guidance on the implementation of this section. Such guidance shall address, among other things, processes for standardizing the measurement and estimation of regulatory costs; standards for determining what qualifies as new and offsetting regulations; standards for determining the costs of existing regulations that are considered for elimination; processes for accounting for costs in different fiscal years; methods to oversee the issuance of rules with costs offset by savings at different times or different agencies; and emergencies and other circumstances that might justify individual waivers of the requirements of this section. The Director shall consider phasing in and updating these requirements.
The Fact Sheet issued further explicating this EO states:
ELIMINATING 10 REGULATIONS FOR EACH NEW REGULATION ISSUED: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to unleash prosperity through deregulation.
The Order requires that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed.
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget will ensure standardized measurement and estimation of regulatory costs.
It requires that for fiscal year 2025, the total incremental cost of all new regulations, including repealed regulations, be significantly less than zero.
HALTING THE REGULATORY ONSLAUGHT: President Trump will halt the job killing and inflation-driving regulatory blitz of the Biden Administration.
The Biden Administration imposed a historic $1.7 trillion in costs on the American people.
Overregulation stops American entrepreneurship, crushes small business, reduces consumer choice, discourages innovation, and infringes on the liberties of American citizens.
It also contributes to the high cost of living, including by driving up energy prices.
BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESS: President Trumps first Administration undertook the most aggressive and successful regulatory reduction effort in history.
In his first term, President Trump asked the agencies to eliminate two regulations for each one new regulation issued. Not only was this 2-for-1 goal achieved, the first Trump Administration eliminated five and a half regulations for everyone new regulation issued.
This Executive Order builds on President Trumps previous success to improve daily lives of the American people by reducing unnecessary, burdensome, and costly Federal regulations.
Apparently, his "employees" in the Executive Branch interpreted this EO to mean "don't create any new regulations" because doing so would mean they'd have to find 10 existing ones to eliminate.
It is the policy of my Administration to focus the executive branchs limited enforcement resources on regulations squarely authorized by constitutional Federal statutes, and to commence the deconstruction of the overbearing and burdensome administrative state. Ending Federal overreach and restoring the constitutional separation of powers is a priority of my Administration.
Then, he went on to instruct his Executive Branch employees to identify which regulations violate law and repeal them. One might think that once the judicial branch determined a rule, policy, regulation, etc., was unlawful, said agency would then repeal those documents. Apparently not because just under a month later, he had to write EOADDITIONAL RESCISSIONS OF HARMFUL EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND ACTIONSissued March 14, 2025 wherein President Trump states:
I have determined that the following additional rescissions are necessary to advance the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of American citizens.
The accompanying Fact Sheet explicates:
RESTORING COMMON SENSE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order rescinding a second round of harmful executive actions issued by the prior administration, continuing his efforts to reverse damaging policies and restore effective government.
This Executive Order rescinds 19 executive actions signed by President Biden.
This is in addition to the nearly 80 executive actions President Trump rescinded on Day One.
In just two months, President Trump has rescinded more executive actions than the total number of executive orders President Biden signed in his entire first year.
These rescissions are necessary to end radical ideology, eliminate wasteful regulations, and prioritize the interests of American citizens.
President Trump is committed to continuing the review and repeal of harmful Biden administration policies to usher in a new golden age for America.
REVERSING BIDENS FAILED POLICIES: President Trumps latest action targets some of Bidens most damaging executive orders and policies, including:
Rescinding Bidens executive action that elevated radical gender ideology in U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid.
Eliminating Bidens use of the Defense Production Act to push his Green New Scam, including mandates for electric heat pumps and solar panels.
Repealing Bidens executive order forcing radical labor policies and apprenticeship mandates onto American businesses and government agencies.
Removing Bidens directive to prioritize union-driven policies that imposed unnecessary regulations on industries.
Revoking Biden executive order that funneled Federal resources into radical biotech and biomanufacturing initiatives under the guise of environmental policy.
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DELIVERING ON HIS PROMISES: With todays Executive Order, President Trump continues delivering on his promise to reverse the disastrous policies of the previous administration and put America back on a path to prosperity, security, and strength.
President Trump: I can undo almost everything Biden did, he through executive order. And on day one, much of that will be undone.
We know President Trump has had an ongoing issue with the water pressure of the showers in California. On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued an EOMAINTAINING ACCEPTABLE WATER PRESSURE IN SHOWERHEADSin which he again addresses:
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. See Energy Conservation Program: Definition of Showerhead, 86 Fed. Reg. 71797 (December 20, 2021); Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products and Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment: Test Procedures for Showerheads, Faucets, Water Closets, Urinals, and Commercial Prerinse Spray Valves, 78 Fed. Reg. 62970 (October 23, 2013). To the extent any definition is necessary for this common piece of hardware, the Oxford English Dictionary defines showerhead in one short sentence.
He then directs:
. . . the Secretary of Energy to publish in the Federal Register a notice rescinding Energy Conservation Program: Definition of Showerhead, 86 Fed. Reg. 71797 (December 20, 2021), including the definition of showerhead codified at 10 C.F.R. 430.2. Notice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal. The rescission shall be effective 30 days from the date of publication of the notice.
UNDOING THE LEFTS WAR ON WATER PRESSURE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make Americas 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 rulesthousands of words longredefining 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 rulehowever, 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. Its not just showersthe 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 Bidens meddling piled on convoluted regulations that made those appliances worse. President Trump is slashing red tape and ending Bidens 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: Were going to get rid of those restrictions. You have many places where they have water, they have so much water they dont 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 its 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.
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. In recent years, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions that recognize appropriate constitutional boundaries on the power of unelected bureaucrats and that restore checks on unlawful agency actions. Yet, despite these critical course corrections, unlawful regulations often promulgated in reliance on now-superseded Supreme Court decisions remain on the books.
Consistent with these priorities and with my commitment to restore fidelity to the Constitution, on February 19, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14219 (Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the Presidents Department of Government Efficiency Deregulatory Initiative). It directed the heads of all executive departments and agencies to identify certain categories of unlawful and potentially unlawful regulations within 60 days and begin plans to repeal them. This review-and-repeal effort shall prioritize, in particular, evaluating each existing regulations lawfulness under the following United States Supreme Court decisions:
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024);
West Virginia v. EPA, 597 U.S. 697 (2022);
SEC v. Jarkesy, 603 U.S. 109 (2024);
Michigan v. EPA, 576 U.S. 743 (2015);
Sackett v. EPA, 598 U.S. 651 (2023);
Ohio v. EPA, 603 U.S. 279 (2024);
Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, 594 U.S. 139 (2021);
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023);
Carson v. Makin, 596 U.S. 767 (2022); and
Roman Cath. Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 592 U.S. 14 (2020).
In effectuating repeals of facially unlawful regulations, agency heads shall finalize rules without notice and comment, where doing so is consistent with the good cause exception in the Administrative Procedure Act. That exception allows agencies to dispense with notice-and-comment rulemaking when that process would be impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest. Retaining and enforcing facially unlawful regulations is clearly contrary to the public interest. Furthermore, notice-and-comment proceedings are unnecessary where repeal is required as a matter of law to ensure consistency with a ruling of the United States Supreme Court. Agencies thus have ample cause and the legal authority to immediately repeal unlawful regulations.Accordingly, I hereby direct:
Following the 60-day review period ordered in Executive Order 14219 to identify unlawful and potentially unlawful regulations, agencies shall immediately take steps to effectuate the repeal of any regulation, or the portion of any regulation, that clearly exceeds the agencys statutory authority or is otherwise unlawful. Agencies should give priority to the regulations in conflict with the United States Supreme Court decisions listed earlier in this memorandum. The repeal of each unlawful regulation shall be accompanied by a brief statement of the reasons that the good cause exception applies.
Within 30 days of the conclusion of the review period directed in Executive Order 14219 to identify unlawful and potentially unlawful regulations, agencies shall submit to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs a one-page summary of each regulation that was initially identified as falling within one of the categories specified in section 2(a) of that Executive Order, but which has not been targeted for repeal, explaining the basis for the decision not to repeal that regulation.
Since taking office, President Donald J. Trump and his administration have secured the release of 47 detained Americans abroad and thats just the beginning as countries around the world respond to our renewed display of American strength and President Trumps commitment to leaving no American behind.
The released American citizens include:
Ksenia Karelina an American ballet dancer who was wrongfully detained in a Russian penal colony for 14 months returned home in April.
Mr. Trump, Im so, so grateful for you to bring me home and for [the] American government. And I never felt more blessed to be American and Im so, so happy to get home. Thank you, Karelina said.
President Trump greets Ksenia Karelina in the Oval Office on May 5, 2025
Marc Fogel an American teacher who was wrongfully detained in a Russian prison for years returned home in February, making good on a promise President Trump made to Fogels 95-year-old mother, Malphine.
President Trump is a hero I will forever be indebted to President Trump, to Steve [Witkoff] over there what a dynamic man this guy is. When I met him, the energy, the can-do attitude just exudes from his body, Fogel said.
President Trump welcomes Marc Fogel to the White House on February 11, 2025
Keith Siegel an American held hostage by Hamas for 484 days was freed in February.
I am here and I am alive. President Trump, you saved my life. You saved the life of 33 hostages because of your efforts, Siegel said.
George Glezmann an American held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for 836 days was freed in March, joining Americans Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, who were released on the night of President Trumps inauguration.
President Trump amazing. Thank God hes in the White House where hes at and thank God he got me out Im in debt with everybody that was involved in this equation because they got me home. A free American individual, free from the hands of these people that abducted because of my U.S. passport, basically and Im just thankful. I got no words to express my gratitude for my liberty, my freedom, Glezmann said.
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