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
• If the Ryan budget goes through, the effects of the conversion of Medicaid to block grants will be felt just as the baby boomers are becoming frail.
  — Grover G. Norquist, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2012
• 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
• Wednesday’s request also seeks $175 million to cover remaining Matthew and Florence home repairs being made through the block grant program.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024