block grant
noun
: an unrestricted grant made by the U.S. federal government to state and local governments to be used at their discretion to pay especially for social services that were formerly paid for through specific federal programs
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The federal government is pushing for work requirements and block grants, which would cap funding and shift more responsibility to the states.
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
This could mean instituting a per-capita cap on funding or reducing the federal matching rate and possibly replacing it with a funding system with block grants in which states would be either given a capped yearly lump sum of money or an annual upper limit on federal payments per Medicaid enrollee.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Project 2025 proposes rolling federal Title I and special-education funding into block grants, which states can administer without extensive federal oversight.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2025
Lamont in early February proposed a $472 million block grant next fiscal year for the CSCU system, and $485 million for 2026-27.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
This could mean instituting a per-capita cap on funding or reducing the federal matching rate and possibly replacing it with a funding system with block grants in which states would be either given a capped yearly lump sum of money or an annual upper limit on federal payments per Medicaid enrollee.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Project 2025 proposes rolling federal Title I and special-education funding into block grants, which states can administer without extensive federal oversight.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2025
Lamont in early February proposed a $472 million block grant next fiscal year for the CSCU system, and $485 million for 2026-27.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Block grant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/block%20grant. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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