Americans Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers Under Trump

More people moved out of the U.S. last year than moved in for the first time since the Great Depression as a record number of citizens moved abroad following Donald Trump's return.

Although the U.S. government doesn't collect official data on the number of citizens leaving, calculations from the Brookings Institution showed that net migration in 2025 was negative for the first time since 1935, and is expected to get worse in 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported.