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by guax 440 days ago
Executive orders are not laws, they're fancy memos. Puerto Rico is in the US btw where the official language is also Spanish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States

> On March 1, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14224 to symbolically designate English as the official language of the United States for the first time.[2][23] The U.S. Congress has never passed legislation declaring an official language at the federal level,[24][25] but English is typically used by the federal government and in states that do not have an official language.