So today's the big day - Level 2 AND Budget day.

The Budget's called ‘Rebuilding Together’, should we be afraid that the last time the government used the word 'build' it was Kiwibuild and look how that ended.

The other concern is that up until now the health response has been run very tightly by 3 people, Grant Robertson, Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield. We know just how tightly that’s been controlled thanks to the leaked government memo.

But yesterday the PM seemed to broaden her church, she used the term.. “My team and I,” in regards taking the country forward economically.

So the 'team' who've largely been silenced in the shadows, are now coming off the bench for this bit.

Hmmm, let's look at that team.. rebuilding our economy.. Phil Twyford.. Julie Anne Genter, Kelvin Davis, famous cyclist David Clark.. Ian Lees Galloway. Take a deep breath and process that. Ask yourself why they're usually kept out of the spotlight.

And although the PM calls this a 'jobs' budget, she also made reference to needing "our welfare safety net.”

“We need the strengthening blanket of support that government is able to provide”.. she said.

She mentioned areas of focus.. “Poverty, climate change, low paid jobs.. domestic manufacturing" - that's a sop to Winston surely.

But you see where this is going.

Imperative to the government was getting the uproar over funerals and tangi out of the way so it didn’t cloud today's budget news. And this is a win for the little guy – a win for those who choose to push back and challenge authority instead of rolling over like doormats and accepting it.

The spectacular back-down within 24 hours on funerals and tangi shows how much of this is put together on the fly.

The PM was asked how they got it so wrong. How they could cause grieving families so much hurt? How they could be so inconsistent?

She didn't answer any of that directly, she instead acknowledged the pain Covid had created.

She referred to us “not being out of the woods yet."

Which seemed at odds with the Director General of Health who in the same space declared the use of PPE gear for hairdressers not compulsory because, as he said.. “we are on top of the virus, the risk of it out there is very low.”

So it would appear the risk Covid presents can be argued whichever way suits your political bent at the time.

But back to the budget.

Bravo to New Zealanders in obeying this government's Health response and getting us this far.

Today's budget will help us now weigh up whether we want this team carrying us through the economic response too.