How to Manage the Federal Budget

One could start by blowing up the following structure and recreate it by allowing no more than two programs across the entirety of the Federal Government:

The following outlines dozens of examples of overlap, as exposed by GAO, including hundreds
of duplicative government programs costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars every year,
yet producing few measurable results.

Program Area	Programs	Agencies	Total Spending
Financial Literacy	15	13	$30 million
Green Buildings	94	11	*$1 billion
Housing Assistance	160	20	$170 billion
Department of Justice Grant Programs	253	10	$3.9 billion
Diesel Emissions	14	3	$1.4 billion over 5 years
Early Learning and Child Care	50	9	$16 billion
Employment Assistance for Disabled Individuals	50	9	$3.5 billion
Surface Transportation	55	5	$43 billion
Support of Entrepreneurs	53	4	$2.6 billion
STEM Education Programs	209	13	$3.1 billion
Unmanned Aircraft Programs	15	5	$37 billion over 5 years
Domestic Food Assistance	18	3	$62.5 billion
Homeless Programs	21	7	$2.9 billion
Transportation Services for Transportation-Disadvantaged Persons	80	8	*$2 billion
Job Training and Employment	47	9	$18 billion
Teacher Quality	82	10	$4 billion
Food Safety	30	15	$1.6 billion
Military and Veterans Health Service		4	$49 billion
Economic Development	80	4	$6.5 billion
US-Mexico Border Region Water Needs		7	$1.4 billion over 8 years
Reducing Reliance on Petroleum Fuel for Federal Fleet	5	20	*$50 million
Electronic Health Records Systems for Veterans & Military	10	2	$2.6 billion over 13 years
Justice Department Explosives Investigations	4	2	$35 million
Sharing Security Information	3	2	$450 million
Defense Language and Cultural Training	18	1	*$30 million
Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Efforts	6	1	$6.5 billion
Training to Identify Fraudulent Travel Documents	7	3	*$20 million
FEMA Preparedness Grants	17	1	$2.7 billion
Nuclear Nonproliferation	21	5	*$90 million

By the way, how well are some of these programs doing?