And going ahead with the F-22 shouldn't in any way block development and funding of unmanned vehicles, which are becoming more sophisticated and deadly.

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In contrast, she points out, block-grant programmes grow much more slowly when times are tough, since funding for them does not increase in line with demand.

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What the Republican plan would do would be to block-grant it, give a great deal of flexibility to the states, and lower funding, and tell the states you run your programs with less money.

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Twenty-nine governors, all Republicans, wrote Congress last month asking for flexibility in the form of block grant funding.

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