Trump To Sign Executive Order Making English America’s Official Language

The Census Bureau found that the number of people in the country who spoke a language other than English roughly tripled to 67.8 million in 2019 from 23.1 million in 1980.

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President Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that lists English as the country’s official language for the first time in America’s history at the federal level.

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