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Managers, working with mayors. let's work with the mayor, the city council, detroit has a lot of things going on in the private and nonprofit sectoror, let's turn around city government and let's go and grow in detroit. >> the president talked about in his state of the union address, about the importance of early childhood education, you're committed to that here in michigan as well? >> absolutely that was a big part of my budget message. i propose doing much the same thing, we're going to get the kids in early childhood programs because it's important for the long-term. >> you're making chang...

They're for him. he needs to seal this deal. he can take the kinds of actions that are necessary. >> luis gutierrez, safe travels. thank you for joining us today. spring break for the president and his budget message, hitting the road this week for town hall meetings, the campaign swing is the first since the the president formally announced his re-election campaign and pair a fund-raising push with an attempt to rally support ahead of the big fight over raising the debt ceiling. meanwhile, republicans are using tax day to hammer a no new taxes message. dan balls is national political report...

$1 billion from the budget includes many of those public workers. it's wednesday, those senate democrats are still in chicago i assume. what does unveiling of the budget by walker mean today given there's nobody to vote on it? >> reporter: what did you say before about neither side winning the argument so far, those senate democrats are still on the other side. i talked to a senator about ten minutes ago, he said if anything the governor's budget message strengthened the resolve of the awol senators and they will do it on a day by day basis. two weeks ago the governor declared war on the union...

There's a pew poll -- mike tiabbi joins us live. is it enough to get the democrats back to vote here? >> reporter: apparently not, richard, it hasn't been enough for two weeks and it's not enough today. i spoke with three of the senate democrats who have been awol for the past ten days or so, and they are actually going to meet in one hotel room and watch the governor's address from the other side of the state line. it's kind of an apples and oranges aspect to this whole deadline business, yes the governor's going to give his budget message this afternoon, and yes the democrats are on the othe...

>> reporter: hi, peter. how are you? yes, the governor is going to get the budget message this afternoon at 3:00 local time. those 14 awol democrats are awol. they're watching a speech from the hotel room on the illinois side of the state line. that's all true, and the governor said if they don't come back and pass his budget relief bill by this afternoon, by the the time of this speech, he won't mate a debt service payment. it will cost the state $165 million and perhaps as many as 1500 state jobs. the oranges part of this equation is the governor will submit a budget with a billion dollars i...