Fox News is mounting a rhetorical push against President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan announced on Wednesday and is trying to declare that a number of projects mentioned in the bill aren’t “infrastructure” — even when they obviously are.
According to Fox's purported “news side” personalities as well as segments from opinion hosts, only roads and bridges actually qualify for the label — which leaves out the following: The electrical grid, broadband internet, building construction, plumbing networks, and who knows what else.
On Thursday morning’s edition of America’s Newsroom, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer asked Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg why only a portion of the spending money was “dedicated to roads and bridges,” instead highlighting the bill’s investments in “electric grid improvements, broadband, water systems, and on and on it goes.”
Buttigieg then explained what was wrong with this argument: The electric grid, broadband internet, and other technologies are part of the infrastructure of a modern economy.