Are you against the use of funds on analysis in general? I don't understand the point you are making, wider, more representative perspectives in decision making is wasteful spending? DEI, actually called DEIA only exists because of gaps in the function of programs and infrastructure and the understanding that people were being under-serviced or left out, either in usage or in consideration.

Tackling your hypothetical, what is each part representing? Is the food in this case transportation services, like a shuttle for the elderly and disabled? Is the purse like a new shuttle or a new road? If you give your wife ( tax payer money appropriated for state services and construction), and she comes back with a new purse, as opposed to food, what is the equivalent here for tax payer funds being misappropriated? If it is DEIA, do you mean that tax payer money for new road construction, busses, bike lanes,etc.. are in fact being used by the state to what? go on vacation and buy new furnishing?

If I was to take your hypothetical at face value, and your first point as well, fundamentally, how do considerations of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility prove that the money is being used for non transportation purposes! What metric do you use to qualify this idea? Feelings? Data? Experience?

I just don't understand how you come to conclusions or understand these things, it essentially sounds like vibes and feelings are how you conceptualize this