Trump To Require Truck Drivers To Speak English, Pass Literacy Tests As 'communication Problems' Mount

President Donald Trump will motion an executive bid requiring motortruck drivers to walk English literacy tests which will bolster roadworthy safety, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. 

Trump will motion an "order directing nan Department of Transportation to see English literacy tests for our truckers. This is simply a large problem successful nan trucking community," Leavitt said connected Monday day during a property convention pinch caller members of nan media. The property convention was abstracted from a White House property briefing earlier Monday morning. 

Trump is expected to motion nan executive bid precocious Monday afternoon, Leavitt said. 

"You mightiness not know, but there's a batch of connection problems betwixt truckers connected nan roadworthy pinch national officials and section officials, arsenic well, which evidently is simply a nationalist information risk," Leavitt continued. "So we're going to guarantee that our truckers, who are nan backbone of our economy, are each capable to speak English. That's a very communal consciousness policy." 

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President Donald Trump is expected to motion an executive bid requiring motortruck drivers walk English literacy test.  (Bob Riha Jr./Reuters)

Fox News' Wil Cain reported earlier successful April connected "The Will Cain Show" that trucking experts reported that location has been an influx of foreign-born truckers successful caller years. 

Cain, citing experts, reported that erstwhile President Barack Obama's management successful 2016 stopped an English request for drivers from being enforced, while nan Biden-Harris management successful 2024 promoted an inaugural that accrued motortruck driving training opportunities for refugees, which has accrued nan number of foreign-born motortruck drivers operating successful nan U.S.

Trump's anticipated executive order comes aft he lauded truckers during nan coronavirus pandemic successful 2020, nether his first administration, for their activity delivering equipment to stores arsenic nan federation locked down. 

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"American truckers are nan ft soldiers who are really carrying america to victory," Trump said successful April 2020 from nan White House. "They’ve done an unthinkable job. We’ve had nary problems. It’s been conscionable — it’s been conscionable great."

"Thank God for truckers," he added. 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to nan media successful nan Oval Office astatine nan White House successful Washington, D.C. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

This is astatine slightest nan 2nd executive bid focused connected nan English connection that Trump has signed since his Oval Office return successful January. Trump signed a abstracted executive bid in March declaring English arsenic nan charismatic connection of nan U.S.

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"A nationally designated connection is astatine nan halfway of a unified and cohesive society, and the United States is strengthened by a citizenry that tin freely exhange ideas successful 1 shared language," Trump wrote successful that order.

The American Flag is carried down nan beforehand agelong connected nan backmost of a Semi truck. 

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The bid revoked an executive bid issued by erstwhile President Bill Clinton successful 2000, titled "Improving Access Services for Persons pinch Limited English Proficiency," which required national agencies and recipients of national backing to supply connection assistance to non-English speakers. 

Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.