The Democrats somehow think they are channeling FDR by giving out a few billion dollars in a lottery, again and again and again. They don't seem to understand how it looks to people who see the spending but still have slow internet.
You solve a problem like not by setting a $X billion budget arbitrary but by planning to get it done, setting a budget appropriate to the scale, and getting it done.
Another phrase that hurts is "technology agnostic". There is nothing agnostic about it at all, it is really advocating fixed wireless and DSL, technologies that aren't adequate to the task. DSL is a great technology for a place like Singapore or South Korea but rural areas in the US need the long range of optic fiber. It shows how far we've fallen that at one point we ran electric wires and telephone wires to people's houses but today we can't run a simple strand of fiber.