It rescinds a federal mandate that requires agencies and other recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States.

Our growing embrace of English wasn’t the only thing S.I. Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about. All the kumbaya they insisted would happen if English was elevated in California unsurprisingly turned out to be a bunch of — excuse my Spanish — caca.