president Donald Trump According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, they sign an executive order requiring truck drivers to pass the English literacy test to enhance road safety.
“We are signing an order directing the Department of Transport to include literacy tests in English for truck drivers. This is a major issue for the trucking community,” Leavitt said at a news conference Monday afternoon with new members of the media. The press conference was separate from the White House press conference Monday morning.
Trump is expected to sign an executive order late Monday afternoon, Leavitt said.
“You may not know, but there are many communication issues between truck drivers on the road with federal government officials and local officials. “So we make sure that truck drivers, the backbone of our economy, can all speak English. That’s a very common sense policy.”
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order requiring truck drivers to pass the English literacy test. (Bob Riha Jr./Reuters)
Fox News’ Wil Cain reported in early April on The Will Cain Show that trucking experts had reported influx of foreign-born truck drivers in recent years.
Cain, citing experts, reported the former president Barack Obama’s Management in 2016 stopped drivers from being enforced, but the 2024 Biden-Harris Administration promoted an initiative to increase truck driving training. Refugee opportunities, The number of foreign-born truck drivers operating in the US has increased.
Trump’s expected presidential order It comes after he praised truck drivers for delivering goods to stores when the nation was locked up during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic under his first administration.
“American truck driver Trump said from the White House in April 2020. “They did an incredible job. There was no problem. It was free – it’s just amazing.”
“Thank God to the truck driver,” he added.
President Donald Trump speaks to media in his oval office in the White House in Washington, DC (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
This is the second executive order that Trump has focused on English signed since at least the oval office returned in January. Trump signed another executive order in March declaring English as the official US language
“Nationally designated languages ​​are at the heart of a unified, cohesive society; US Trump was reinforced by citizens who were free to spit ideas out in one shared language, writing in that order.
The American flag is carried down the front stretch behind the semi truck.
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The order rescinded an executive order issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000, entitled “Improved Access Services for People with Limited English Proficiency,” and called for recipients of federal agencies and federal funding to provide language support to English speakers.
Alexandra Koch of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
