[jfengel]

You are correct: the headline is not-untrue, but it is misleading. The short-term extension is solely a matter of the pandemic; it's unclear what the outcome of the long-term vote will be.

There are many who consider this bill shady regardless, since it's there to extend powers passed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Civil libertarians (of whom there are many on this site) always considered it dangerous, and two decades on even more so. So from that standpoint, the alarm in the headline is called for, even if not precisely for the reasons it says.