Why conservatives are wrong to say broadband access isn't infrastructure spending To be against Biden's spending money on broadband is to be against the rural residents conservatives claim to champion. There's a data drought in America's rural communities.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images April 7, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC "Broadband is infrastructure." That's what President Joe Biden's Twitter account posted Monday night. You might not have noticed, given that it's a perfectly anodyne statement — one that happens to be true. And yet, Biden's tweet drew ire from the likes of Ben Shapiro. "The rule is that if you can stuff anything into the infrastructure box, then it counts as useful government spending. So everything is infrastructure now!" the Daily Caller editor emeritus wrote.