From the Wall Street Journal: President Trump is planning to sign an executive order that would for the first time make English the official language of the U.S., according to White House officials. In its nearly 250-year history, the U.S. has never had a national language at the federal level. Hundreds of languages are spoken in the U.S., the byproduct of the country’s long history of taking in immigrants from around the world.
The executive order would rescind a federal mandate issued by former President Bill Clinton that agencies and other recipients of federal funding are required to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, the officials said.