Why Are We Debating What Infrastructure Is?

     President Biden's 2 trillion dollar American Jobs Plan has certainly been talked about an insane amount. Nearly all of the provisions included in this proposed bill are overwhelmingly popular with the American people. However, since it is frequently being referred to as an "infrastructure" bill, which certainly seems like it makes sense with a broad definition of what infrastructure means, there has been a ton of unnecessary debate about it. My question is, why were these ideas pitched this way in the first place? How did these communications people not understand that they would be opening up the door for the other side to attack the bill through arguments like this and this? Why is anyone from the democrats even engaging these questions in the first place? 

    This whole saga of the bill has been maddening. Who cares if certain provisions are infrastructure or not? Instead, there should be more focus and discussion of the merits of the provisions themselves. Looking at the second, article from Fox News listed above, they are able to attack the bill, without having to openly oppose increasing care for the elderly. Popular opinion is shifting towards taking action of climate, and now instead of Republicans having to take an unpopular stance and opposing an issue that they are clearly the minority on, they can simply say that it is not infrastructure and continue on with their opposition of anything that democrats propose. The media coverage of this and the messaging put forth by the democrats has been so strange to me that I wish I could see some reasoning behind it. Instead, it seems that these overwhelmingly popular and good provisions may get left out because of a debate about the definition of infrastructure.