This petition serves as an apology to Dr. Merkel on behalf of the signatories- the many Americans who were embarassed by Trump's lack of respect when he deliberately refused to shake her hand on camera during her visit. His lack of respect does not represent us. Bitte akzeptieren Sie unsere aufrichtige Entshuldigung... (please accept our sincere apology)

The White House budget is targeting these programs for removal. These programs provide support to families trying to work their way out of poverty. Cutting these programs will remove supporting programs and prolong the cycle of poverty.

Kids in our state suffer from underfunding of school programs. Congress should not cut after school programs for our kids. Vote No on trump's budget.

This petition is to deal with the abuses of taxpayer property and funds to conduct both political party business and personal business. We now have a president making a weekly trip to Florida for golfing using taxpayer funds. We now have the President's entire family taking business and pleasure trips using taxpayer funds and equipment and personnel. It is beyond reasonable usage and is an abuse of tax payer funds

Everyone has been affected by the outrageous cost of prescription medications, including even generic medicines. It is very important to increase the cost-effectiveness of prescription writing in the USA while maintaining very high-quality access. This petition will support that goal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/340B_Drug_Pricing_Program

Millions of working families in rural communities from Mississippi to Upstate New York are counting on Sen. Mitch McConnell to protect critical anti-poverty programs from cuts proposed by Donald Trump. Poverty in Appalachia is a major problem that too often goes largely unnoticed by the rest of the country. That’s why Presidents Kennedy and Johnson increased investment in Appalachia through programs that address unemployment and poverty. However, Donald Trump wants to defund two of these major anti-poverty programs. Trump’s federal budget proposes cutting the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Economic Development Administration, and if he is successful, the results will be devastating for rural communities in some of the poorest counties in the United States. By ending these programs, he’s launching a war on the working poor in Appalachia and keeping millions of dollars of investments out of the region. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, one of the poorest states in Appalachia, will ultimately have the final say on whether or not these programs are kept in place. That’s why we need voters across the region to take a stand and fight for these programs. Please join with me and demand that Mitch McConnell fight for the working poor across Appalachia. --- Sources --- Trump's budget would cut funding for Appalachia - and his allies in coal country are livid Brad Plumer - http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/3/17/14951892/trump-budget-coal-country Budget cuts 2 sources of funds for rural Alabama Mary Bureau - http://www.timesdaily.com/news/state-capital/budget-cuts-sources-of-funds-for-rural-alabama/article_cb6eb877-1a27-502d-bc67-3c6b633c4842.html

If we allow enrichment programs to be cut from the "Amreica First" budget, our children and their families will suffer. Many families depend on these programs not only for their chldren's enrichment but for the child care they provide.

The Spring 2017 UN Conference on Women's Rights should not include reps who are anti-human rights, anti-feminists.

To prioritize our tax dollars towards health care.

As a US Citizen, I am sick of our taxes paying for this family's lavish lifestyle, yet Trump wants to cut budgets to "Meals on Wheels", after school programs, school lunch programs, Medicaid, help for the mentally ill, etc. Instead of our taxes paying for "Trump" expenses, let them go to what is important, and if he insists on traveling so much to his "winter White House", let this so-called billionaire pay for it himself. Plus any trips his sons' make on behalf of the Trump Organization should be paid for by their company. Their secret service expenses are out of control. It needs to stop.

I am starting this petition because I am one of the many in this country buried in student loan debt that seems to go nowhere. I have no problem paying the loan back, but I do have a problem with the interest rates. It is out of control. It is in no way beneficial for students to even go to college anymore without grants and scholarships. Taking out loans is shooting yourself in the foot and trapping people in debt. This is why I have started this petition. So that Americans can go to school and not be buried in debt for the next 10 to 25 years of their lives.

There are millions of Americans like myself who run a serious risk if their healthcare is interrupted. Congress' new plan is a financial and immoral mistake.