Because they're not budget cuts. They're reductions in the amount of annual spending; these departments are all receiving more funding than they received last year, just not as much as they were expecting. In addition, they keep using the word "sequester" because the a$$ clown empty suit believes that he has successfully convinced the ignorant masses, with the willing assistance of his media propogandists, to lay the blame of the detrimental effects he plans to unleash on the clueless and gutless Repukelicans.
Cuts, reductions...what else can you name it as other than what it really is?