President Donald Trump will sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States.
Despite English being the predominant language, the U.S. has never had a national language at the federal level.
However, many states have declared English as their official language.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the order:
The executive order would rescind a federal mandate issued by President Bill Clinton that agencies and other recipients of federal funding are required to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, the officials said.
Agencies will still be able to provide documents and services in languages other than English, according to a White House summary of the order viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The summary of the order said the goal of making English the national language is to promote unity, establish efficiency in the government and provide a pathway to civic engagement.
BREAKING: President Trump plans to sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States.
Despite nearly 250 years of history, the U.S. has never had a federally recognized national language—until now. pic.twitter.com/yNOM9f6EEq
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Trump has long been critical of efforts to diversify the languages spoken across the U.S., insisting that English should be spoken by everyone for the benefit of social cohesion.
During his presidential campaign, he pointed out that Haitian migrants were flooding into the country whose only language was Haitian Creole, which is a dialect of French.
“We have languages coming into our country. We don’t have one instructor in our entire nation that can speak that language.”
“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.”
After English, the most widely spoken languages in the U.S. is Spanish, with over 40 million speakers, driven by immigration from Latin America.
Chinese, including Mandarin and Cantonese, follows with around 3.5 million speakers, concentrated in cities like New York and Los Angeles.
Tagalog, spoken by over 1.7 million people, reflects significant Filipino immigration, while Vietnamese and Arabic each have more than a million speakers due to migration from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Other widely spoken languages include French and Korean.
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