When the federal government implements a new program but does not release any grants to state governments to carry out the program, this is an Unfunded mandate.
This refers to a policy by the federal government which would have to affect all the states because the federal government is national.
A lot of the time., the federal government will give states funds to enable them to carry about new programs from the federal level so that the programs can be implemented effectively. Sometimes however, they won't do this and this will be an unfunded mandate.
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