Republicans have, of course, proposed to turn Medicaid as a whole into a block grant.
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The funds are provided through bond refinancing savings Community Development Block Grant, and city funds.
The other is the Barnett Formula which annually alters the amount ceded to Scotland via block grant.
And when it comes to Medicaid, Republicans have one proposal: block grant the money to the state.
Reform to the formula that sets the block grant Wales gets from Westminster will not be there.
Twenty-nine governors, all Republicans, wrote Congress last month asking for flexibility in the form of block grant funding.
Send Federal spending on Medicaid and SCHIP back to the states under the same finite block grant formula.
That would give the Welsh Government that all-important revenue stream to borrow against independent of the block grant.
Indeed, the House GOP likes the idea so much that it wants to turn Medicaid into a block grant.
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Converting to one-time block grant to local governments: JPY 510 billion reduction.
Bush's budget also cut the community services block grant, leaving inadequate employment and health care services, the governor said.
In May, the city was notified that it would receive a community development block grant from the federal government.
Ulster Unionist Sandra Overend addressed the "potentially significant cost to the block grant" if the duty was to be devolved.
The DUP's Peter Weir said his party would be opposing the changes due to the "implications to the NI block grant".
When the then GOP-controlled Congress passed a Medicaid block grant bill, Clinton vetoed it, then proposed per-capita caps as a compromise.
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Since the late 1970s both countries have received an annual block grant.
It would be like New Jersey securitizing a federal block grant.
He also called for sending all federal welfare programs back to the states with the same welfare block grant reforms adopted in 1996.
But the key to making a block grant work is to give the states more flexibility to meet the needs of their citizens.
At present the Welsh government cannot raise taxes and can only spend what it receives through an annual block grant from the Treasury.
The U.S. House of Representatives agrees with the governors and included a plan to block grant Medicaid funds in its Fiscal Year 2012 budget.
The block grant cuts are especially curious because House Republicans say they support the oncept, which provides states with far more flexibility than typical federal programs.
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States could shift 30 percent of their welfare block grant to programs to protect and care for children, the most vulnerable part of the welfare population.
Universities receive the bulk of their public money in the form of a block grant, to be divided between teaching and research as the university sees fit.
Under the Bill, MSPs would be directly responsible for 10p worth of income tax revenue - with a consequential reduction in the block grant from the Treasury.
DC, now receives a block grant for welfare (a fixed sum based on the amount it received at the time of greatest need) from the federal government.
The current program is funded as a block grant from the federal government to the states and other entities, leaving wide latitude in the types of assistance provided.
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And he said financial issues, such as the devolution of tax powers and the block grant which Scotland gets from the Treasury, would be looked at in future.
Mr Davies looked rather askance as Mr Drakeford would say only that it's fine to discuss all options, just as long as the block grant remains in place.
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