Criticisms
- The award process can be manipulated so that grants can be distributed to reward the federal administration's own party (by favoring states with governors of that party, for example).
- At the local level, the same sort of partisan favoritism may occur when the state distributes the funds to local government units.
- Disbursing the funds through state or local governments makes federal oversight of their proper use very difficult.
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