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Spending on Transportation should be decreased by $39.4B (-37.5%) to reach the optimal allocation of $65.6B.
The Optimal Budget Generator (OBG) uses a diminishing-returns framework to allocate spending across categories. Each budget category is modeled with a concave utility function — the first dollar spent on a category produces more welfare than the billionth dollar.
The marginal return of 0.00% means each additional dollar currently spent on Transportation produces 0.00 cents of welfare value. Categories with higher marginal returns are underfunded relative to their potential; those with lower returns are overfunded.
Federal spending is about $6.71T. Each category's optimal is an independent efficient-frontier estimate, not a fixed-budget reallocation of that total across all 18 categories.
See the Optimal Budget Generator paper for full methodology.
Generated 7/12/2026 · Optimitron OBG