How to Use block grant in a Sentence

block grant

noun
  • 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
  • State officials hope to use part of the block grant money for that project, too.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 10 May 2018
  • 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
  • The block grants would be the backbone of the conservative plan.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 19 June 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
  • But a federal block grant to cover child care services is likely to run out.
    — USA TODAY, 2 June 2020
  • The program receives a mix of state funding and a federal block grant.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • The city receives money each year through the block grant program based on the most recent census.
    — Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2022
  • Instead, states would get a much smaller, temporary block grant of money.
    — Antoinette Kraus, Philly.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The remainder will come from federal mental health block grant funds.
    — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The block grant would be based on overall or per capita budget targets tied to inflation.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The block grant is a federal program that is used by hundreds of cities nationwide.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 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 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
  • An idea exists to replace the federal funding of science by state block grants.
    — Monica Driscoll, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The House bill similarly adds early childhood funds to state block grants.
    — Scott White, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • If implemented, the block grant waiver would take effect for the next 10 years.
    — Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • But efforts to convert Medicaid to block grants have been contentious.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • One is increasing financing for the block grant that helps low-income families pay for child care.
    — Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • But the other parties involved in the block grant program are skeptical of that quick timeframe.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2025
  • Annual block grants would give states a set amount of money, regardless of the number of enrollees.
    — Phil Galewitz, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Graham and Cassidy have vowed to keep trying to replace Obamacare with block grants.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The analysis starts with the House bill’s plan to convert Medicaid to a block grant for states.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Congress had phased out Safe Neighborhood block grants in 2012.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 3 July 2018
  • 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
  • Earlier in the summer, disagreements emerged over the rollout of the disaster aid block grant.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Now consider the effect of changing Medicaid to block grants.
    — Grover G. Norquist, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2012

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