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April 2004
 Block Grants:
Details of the Bush Proposals
President Bush's FY
2005 budget proposes converting a wide range of federal programs
into block grants. Block grants are fixed sums of money given to
state or local governments to support program activities and
administration. Compared with other grants, block grants give
state and local level recipients more flexibility in program
design and implementation with reduced federal oversight and
requirements. Most of Bush's block grant proposals affect
existing social welfare programs, including Child Welfare, Head
Start, Job Access and Reverse Commute, Job Training, Medicaid, and
Section 8 Housing vouchers (table 1). The New Freedom proposal,
the only one that provides new federal funding, promotes
transportation services for individuals with disabilities. Other
proposals streamline existing Justice Assistance and Surface
Transportation programs.
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