How to Use block grant in a Sentence

block grant

noun
  • The block grants would be the backbone of the conservative plan.
    Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • State officials hope to use part of the block grant money for that project, too.
    Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 10 May 2018
  • Much of this is attributed to the rigidity of a block grant.
    Tara Golshan, Vox, 25 May 2018
  • Worse, states will have the option to opt for block grants, lump-sum payments that the states will manage at will.
    Prajwal Ciryam, Slate Magazine, 22 June 2017
  • The plan would send billions of dollars in health care funding from Obamacare back to the states in block grants.
    Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
  • But for the most part, the Obamacare taxes would stay in place and be redistributed to states in the form of block grants.
    Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Instead, block grants would be given to states with few strings on how the money would be spent.
    Alan Fram, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • In order to get the block grant, states would need to create something workable by 2020.
    April Dembosky, Kqed and Ashley Lopez, Kaiser Health News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The Southwest has been a case study in why welfare should not have been turned into a block grant, experts say.
    Adria Malcolm, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The city receives money each year through the block grant program based on the most recent census.
    Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2022
  • The money comes from a block grant the city receives from the federal government each year.
    Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The block grant can also be used to eliminate slum and blight in the city, Grover said, but the council has yet to decide how the money will be spent.
    James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Cities can largely choose how to spend federal block grants.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2019
  • If implemented, the block grant waiver would take effect for the next 10 years.
    Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Congress had phased out Safe Neighborhood block grants in 2012.
    Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 3 July 2018
  • The nascent proposal would end the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid and funnel money to states in the form of block grants.
    Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • But a federal block grant to cover child care services is likely to run out.
    USA TODAY, 2 June 2020
  • Graham and Cassidy have vowed to keep trying to replace Obamacare with block grants.
    Alex Shephard, New Republic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The block grant is a federal program that is used by hundreds of cities nationwide.
    Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The block grant would be based on overall or per capita budget targets tied to inflation.
    Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • What will pop up is money for enhanced school safety, maybe block grants. Because who will oppose it with school shootings so much in the news.
    John Baer, Philly.com, 3 June 2018
  • But efforts to convert Medicaid to block grants have been contentious.
    Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Instead, states would get a much smaller, temporary block grant of money.
    Antoinette Kraus, Philly.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • As with the land-grant colleges, federal funding would work through a block grant so that states could adjust as needed to the local context.
    R. Glenn Hubbard, National Review, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The bill also boosts funding to block grant programs that the Trump budget eliminated.
    Jeff Andrews, Curbed, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The remainder will come from federal mental health block grant funds.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The center is requesting for the state’s annual block grant to continue at $133.8 million for the next fiscal year.
    Christopher Keating, courant.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • In 2017, Trump’s budget proposal called for block grant funding and cuts to Medicaid.
    Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The House Republican Study Committee calls for block grants.
    Victoria Knight, Axios, 17 July 2024
  • The city of Arlington is also contributing $1.8 million in community development block grant funds toward the project and acquired the property where the facility will be constructed.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 June 2024

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