"Federal Firefighters Face Steep Pay Cuts," is the print headline over a New York Times news article. If you read the article, it explains that Congress had approved a two-year temporary pay raise of either "50 percent of a worker's base salary or $20,000 a year, whichever was lower," that is now set to expire. There's a "framing" issue here: whenever any temporary spending program in Washington approaches expiration, the press and the spending advocates portray the expiration as a "cut."
It's good reason to be skeptical when any program is described as "temporary."