Congress roughs up Reagan's plan to return power to the states
In his quest for a "new federalism," President Reagan hopes to reverse a generation of growing federal involvement in America's domestic agenda and return control of social programs to the states.
Last week, however, that philosophy suffered a head-on collision with political reality. Congressmen of both parties, jealously guarding their control of the public purse, rejected the keystone of Reagan's design: the consolidation of categorical grants for some 500 specific programs into six unrestricted block grants.* Those would go directly to the states to divide as they please among various programs,...
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