🇺🇸 United States · 2016 · 🐾 Animals
Rare Italian goats, flown in to boost Afghan cashmere. Guess the project cost.
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
US$6 million cashmere project
The goats were fine. The spreadsheet was the one that got fleeced.
What actually happened
A Pentagon economic task force spent about $6 million on a project that imported Italian goats to improve Afghanistan’s cashmere industry. The US inspector general for Afghan reconstruction told senators the Pentagon had failed to track the spending and the project’s status was unknown.
Source: Mother Jones ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.