The United States wasted more than $200 million on an Iraqi police-training program that has little backing on the ground, a new U.S. government audit released Monday found.

Training the Iraqi police was originally envisioned as the biggest single program run by the U.S. Department of State in the world, spanning five years and costing billions of dollars. But the program has been gutted as Iraqi officials show dimming interest. The U.S. slashed the number of advisors from 85 to 36 this month; it had once planned to have 350.

As Iraqi enthusiasm for the idea has flagged, the program has been downsized so much that the Baghdad Police College Annex — built at an $108 million cost to help house the program — will be closed. The U.S. also chipped in an additional $98 million to a Basra facility where training will be halted, making the money a ‘de facto waste,