According to a Fox News report, President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order declaring English as the official language of the United States.
The order will rescind a mandate issued by Bill Clinton in 2000 that required federal agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
Trump is expected to sign the order Friday afternoon.
From Fox News:
The U.S. has never had an official language across its nearly 250-year history, though every major document such as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence has been written in English. About 180 countries of the 195 countries across the globe have official languages, leaving the U.S. as one of the few countries that has not officiated a language, a White House official shared.
Trump previously had previewed potentially officiating English as the nation’s language, including in 2024 as he railed against the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
“We have languages coming into our country. We don’t have one instructor in our entire nation that can speak that language,” Trump said while speaking before the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2024. “These are languages—it’s the craziest thing—they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a very horrible thing.”
The order is intended to celebrate multilingual Americans who have learned English and passed it down to their family members, while also “empowering immigrants” to reach the American dream via a common language, Fox Digital learned.
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