Trump to sign executive order making English the official US language

Trump to sign executive order making English the official US language

The order marks the first time the country has ever had a national language.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a historic executive order designating English as the United States' official language, a White House official confirmed to ABC News on Friday.
The order marks the first time the country has ever had a national language.
The executive order rescinds a Clinton-era mandate that required agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide extensive language assistance to non-English speakers. Under the new order, agencies will have the flexibility to decide how and when to offer services in languages other than English, according to a fact sheet the White House.

The White House is defending the action, saying that while hundreds of languages are spoken across the United States, English is the most widely used.