Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, March 1st. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's how we're

making you smarter today. A former President Trump and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will be

affecting Washington this week, plus the mood in Minneapolis ahead of the trial over George Floyd's

death. But first, today's one big thing are failure to protect America from future catastrophes.

The pandemic, the power grid failure in Texas, really name your catastrophic failure from the

past year or so, which is made it clear that many of the systems we rely on as Americans are

unprepared for the worst. And as Axios' Felix Semmon has been writing, our infrastructure is failing

and future disaster events could stress our systems past the breaking point. Felix, there are a lot

of people whose job it is to basically worry about all of these things happening. In the US

government, whose job is that? Well, it's interesting you should say that, Nyla, because there are,

you're quite right, a lot of people who worry about these things. But I feel that what we lack in

this country is a person whose job it is to coordinate all of this. So there's any number of bits

of the Department of Energy, or the Department of Homeland Security, or FEMA, or almost any

government department you care to mention. What's harder to find is one person in the cabinet,

or near the cabinet, or cabinet adjacent, who can just basically coordinate all of that stuff and

make sure that everyone is pulling in the same direction. We also should be talking about state

and local government's ability to handle this. And the private sector, everything needs to be

coordinated, and you need to coordinate from the private sector, the city level, the state level,

the federal level, and that kind of coordination is what seems to be lacking. So there's this idea

that that's too expensive. And fixing something like our electrical grid is too expensive.

What I love about your story is that you reported that no one less than Warren Buffett has weighed in

when it comes to the electrical grid and how much this costs. And if this is something business

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