But where is the movement to protect Pel Grants, Medicaid, and other social programs?
Additional safeguard procedures, including measures to protect Global Fund grants when there are major concerns about governance in a country, have been implemented in another 16 countries.
Sticky, sweet, crunchy, flaky, soft and nutty... baklava is a staple of every pastry shop in the east from Athens to Ankara, but the ancient city of Gaziantep (previously Antep) in south-east Turkey, is the only place in the world where it has been granted protected status – granted by the European Commission in 2014.
The measures will, Drayson says, protect the grant parts of the STFC budget and prevent the sort of cuts the council was forced to announce last year.
"If such a breach occurred," she writes Smith, "I am convinced even further of NSF's need to protect confidential grant materials".
The House version would eliminate grants for up to 1 million college students while the Senate plan protects Pell grants.
He said the deal protected Pell grants for college students and Medicaid spending, but perhaps more important, did not allow government to be held "hostage" by a Republican threat of default.
At the Democratic National Convention, actor Kal Penn also reacted to Eastwood's controversial performance, thanking "the invisible man in the chair" for protecting Pell Grants, killing Osama bin Laden and supporting gay marriage.
In addition, the Democrats introduced and won the removal of banks from student loan programs and protected Pell grants, now being used by women, who are the majority of college students today.
A petition to protect the current grants, named #KeepTheGrants, has been signed by over 42,000 people, at the time of writing.
