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Secretary Wright Previews 47 Appliance Regulation Changes on Fox & Friends, May 11, 2025

May 12, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:05:14

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What happened

On Fox & Friends, ahead of the President’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, Secretary Wright said, as he stated it, that the President’s agenda abroad is the same as at home — peace and prosperity — pursued with bold leadership rather than the prior administration’s focus on, as he put it, the biggest troublemaker in the region, as he stated it, as the United States resumed nuclear talks with Iran, as the hosts noted.

On deregulation, Wright said, as he stated it, that the department had worked day and night reviewing its regulations and would announce the next day 47 changes to regulations — mostly straight-out eliminations — covering dishwashers, stoves, washing machines, microwaves, and, as he put it, maybe biggest of all, shower heads, with gas cans to be addressed next, as he stated it. He put, as he stated it, the savings at more than $10 billion for American consumers, alongside better appliances and, as he put it, getting big brother out of people’s lives, as he stated it.

Wright agreed, as stated in the exchange, that making such changes permanent requires legislation, pointing to the REINS Act effort led by Senator Mike Lee, as he stated it. The interview also turned to Venezuela and the administration’s posture toward Chevron and Nicolás Maduro, which Wright framed, as he stated it, as a 25-year problem involving a country that was once a wealthy, prosperous U.S. ally and huge energy producer, as he stated it.

Why it matters

Appliance rules are the most household-visible part of the energy agenda, and the Secretary used this appearance to put a number on the rollback package — 47 changes, more than $10 billion in claimed savings — the day before it was announced.

Scoreboard watch

Secretary Wright’s announcement in this appearance — 47 regulation changes to be unveiled the following day and more than $10 billion in claimed consumer savings, as he stated them — is checkable against the department’s published actions. Flagged as a scoreboard candidate for the editor; no verdict is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox & Friends - May 11, 2025”, 2025-05-12 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-05-12). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.