In criticizing Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and vetoing a bill that would fund a water project in the state, President Donald Trump has claimed that people are leaving the state "in droves," but that's not what the available data show. Despite having supported the project during his first term, the president wrote in a memo to Congress that he nixed the bill because it "would continue the failed policies of the past by forcing Federal taxpayers to bear even more of the massive costs of a local water project." But he suggested in an interview with Politico that another contributing factor was his impression that the population of Colorado was declining. In social media posts criticizing Polis, Trump repeated the claim about people moving out of the state, once citing one moving company. Demographic data and figures from other moving companies contradict the claim.