WASHINGTON – President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will make English the official language of the United States for the first time in the 250-year history of the United States, the Post confirmed.
This mission is the first time the US has had an official language at the federal level, denying rules issued by former President Bill Clinton and demanding federal agencies have linguistic material for non-English speakers.
Enforcement actions require that agencies or groups receiving government funds no longer provide assistance in languages other than English.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the following order, reported that the text outlines the need for unity, efficiency and citizen involvement.
Trump has long spoken about the rise of illegal immigrants passing through the southern border and the need for English to become the main language spoken within the country.
“This is a country where we speak English rather than Spanish,” Trump said during the 2015 presidential debate.
He repeated similar sentiments during the 2024 campaign, saying, “We have a language in our country. We don’t have one instructor in our country who can speak that language.”
“These are languages - they are the craziest ones – they have a language that no one in this country has ever heard of, and that’s very scary,” the president said.
English is the most widely spoken language in the United States, and 32 states have declared it as their official language.
US lawmakers have also introduced laws to the same effect for decades, but have never reached the president’s desk.
Recently, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who moved from Columbia and became an American citizen at the age of 18, has come up with a bill to make English the official language of the United States.
The law went further than executive orders, forcing all US government functions to be implemented in English, but at the same time, it was mandatory for citizenship applicants to demonstrate proficiency in the language.
