1. Richard Nixon was a major mind behind New Federalism by Refraining from sending money to the states .
2. Grants-in-aid are grants pushed by the Reagan Administration where the categorical grants were consolidated and given to states with few strings and much broader categories such as “education” or “highways”.
1. Richard Nixon was a major mind behind New Federalism. Nixon eased the restrictions on money that was sent to the states (b).
New Federalism is a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states. The primary objective of New Federalism is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
Richard Nixon was a major mind behind New Federalism. Nixon eased the restrictions on money that was sent to the states, believing that they were in a better position to know how to spend the money than the federal government.
2. Block grants (a) are grants pushed by the Reagan Administration where the categorical grants were consolidated and given to states with few strings and much broader categories such as “education” or “highways".
A block grant is a grant-in-aid of a specified amount from a larger government to a smaller regional government body.
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