President Donald Trump is finalizing an executive order to declare English as the official language of the country in an unprecedented move.
The United States is a country without an official language at the federal level, although there are 32 individual states that do formally recognize English as such.
According to the US Census Bureau, some of the most widely spoken languages other than English are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Arabic.
White House sources have confirmed to NBC News and the ‘Wall Street Journal’ the preparations for this new Trump order, which fits with previous efforts by the Republican Party in this regard, such as the one undertaken in 2021 by Congressman James Inhofe to “prevent misinterpretations of the English texts of the laws of the United States.”
