Earlier this year, President Trump signed an executive order establishing English as the official language of the United States. Now, he is requiring English usage in housing assistance programs and some other benefits programs. And as usual, Democrats and liberals are outraged.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a federal agency that provides housing assistance to low-income Americans through programs such as Section 8 rental vouchers, public housing units managed by local authorities, emergency aid for the homeless, first-time homebuyer support, and community development projects.
HUD is adopting an English-only policy for nearly all of its services, following President Trump’s March 2025 executive order that made English the official language of the United States for the first time in the nation’s history. The order revoked President Clinton’s 2000 directive requiring federal agencies and federally funded programs to provide language assistance for people with limited English proficiency (LEP).
While it does not override civil rights protections such as Title VI or mandate the elimination of multilingual services, it gives agencies discretion to reduce or end them. At HUD, this means removing non-English materials from websites and offices, ending translation services in more than 200 languages, and requiring all official communications to be in English.
YESSS!!!!! And proof of citizenship!
And to get a freakin driver’s license.