Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, March 29th. I'm Naila Boudou.

Today, Justice Clarence Thomas' wife underscored me from the January 6th Committee,

plus how modernizing public transit could displace people who needed the most.

But first, Biden's push for police funding is today's one big thing.

President Biden on Monday proposed a $5.8 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year,

which would include attacks on billionaires and increased spending on defense,

supply chain issues, and law enforcement. The answer is not to defund our police departments.

It's to fund our police and give them all the tools they need.

That's President Biden yesterday. Republicans have made rising crime a talking point ahead of

the midterms, but Biden's budget runs counter to calls from progressives to defund the police.

Hans Nichols covers the Biden administration for Axios high-hands.

Good morning. First, let's start with what your big takeaway is from the entire budget proposal

the president made yesterday. So, big picture they are clearly moving to the center. They're

doing that on police. They're doing that on defense. They're spending more for defense.

And then crucially, they're doing it on deficit reduction. And to me, that's really the biggest

change, right? Is that Joe Biden is kind of accepting Joe Manchin's argument that if you're going to

spend for things and if you're going to increase spending, you need to actually increase revenues

and that deficit spending causes inflation. Because you look at all the polls that are out there,

anecdotal evidence, inflation is killing President Biden. They know they need to have a plan,

or at least the illusion of a plan they need to appear to be doing something.

With the idea of funding for law enforcement, where will this money actually go if this makes

it into the final budget? So, we'll have like 300 new investigators, agents, personnel for

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