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
• 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
• 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
• McGrady said that the city was looking into fixing it and that block grant money could be used there, subject to the council’s decision.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• Paul said even though the bill transforms federal health care dollars into block grants that states would control, the GOP bill left too much of that spending intact.
  — Time, 26 Sep. 2017
• Frustrated and unwilling to give up, Mr. Graham used a private meeting in the Oval Office to urge support for a plan that relies on block grants to states.
  — Michael D. Shear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• The state’s block grant to UConn funds 47% of employee salaries, with the remaining 53% funded by tuition and fees, research, grants and contracts and other non-state revenue sources.
  — Rick Green, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• The core of the new plan is a proposal to shift hundreds of billions of dollars provided by the healthcare law to expand coverage into block grants to states.
  — Noam N. Levey, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
• Universities should get an increase in unrestricted block grants from the government, a type of funding that has lagged over the past decade.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 5 Nov. 2019
• There are block grant programs, in which the government provides all the funding a candidate needs for a particular race.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
• This kind of block grant concept had long been popular with conservatives.
  — Noam N. Levey, latimes.com, 19 June 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024