President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that makes English the official language of the United States.

According to a fact sheet about the impending decision, the order will give government agencies and nonprofit organizations that receive federal funding the option to continue offering documents and services other than in English.

The Wall Street Journal reported this move first on Friday.

It was not immediately apparent when Trump would sign the order on Friday.

The executive order will reverse a directive from former president Bill Clinton, which required that organizations and government agencies that receive federal funding provide language assistance for non-English speaking citizens.

According to the White House, designating English as the nation’s language “promotes unification, creates efficiency in government operation, and opens a path for civic engagement.”

More than 30 states had passed laws declaring English their official language. U.S. English is a group that advocates English as the official language of the United States.

Trump has expressed concern over the difficulties faced by immigrants who do not speak English in the U.S.

The Journal reported that Trump had said, “We have languages coming to our country. We don’t even have a single instructor who can speak this language in our nation.” It’s crazy- they speak languages that no one in the United States has ever heard. It’s an awful thing.” In a presidential debate in 2015, Trump criticised the former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, who spoke Spanish during his campaign. Trump told the Journal that “this is a nation where we speak English and not Spanish.”

In recent years, the use of Spanish has been controversial, especially in Texas where, in 2011, a state Senator demanded that a Mexican immigrant rights advocate speak in English at a legislative meeting, rather than his native Spanish.

This rekindled an old debate about whether or not it’s appropriate to speak Spanish in Texas. Texas was once part of Mexico and, before that, part of the Spanish Empire.

Many older Mexican-American Texans have been affected by this issue. They recall being punished in school for speaking Spanish during the 1950s.