Trump to Make English Official U.S. Language
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We exclusively report that President Trump is planning to sign an executive order that would make English the official language of the U.S., making it the first time the country has had an official language in its nearly 250-year history. That's according to White House officials.

The executive order would also rescind a Clinton administration mandate that required recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers. According to a White House summary of the order viewed by the Wall Street Journal, agencies will still be able to provide documents and services in languages other than English. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting the White House today to attempt to reset his relationship with President Trump as the U.S. pushes for quick negotiations over the fate of Ukraine.

Whether Zelensky can use Trump's transactional approach to diplomacy to obtain the security guarantees he is seeking is an open question. Trump has repeatedly declined to say publicly whether the U.S. might provide indirect support for a prospective European peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

And the U.S. Commerce Department said today that the Federal Reserve's key inflation metric moved closer to the 2% target last month. The personal consumption expenditures price index rose by 2.6%, down 0.1% from December, and the core version, which excludes food and energy costs, dropped 0.3% from the previous month, coming in at 2.6%.

Meanwhile, an advance estimate from the Commerce Department showed that the U.S.'s good imports exceeded exports by a record $153.3 billion in January. That's a 26% surge from December. We'll have more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast. You can add it to your playlist on your smart speaker or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hey!

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