Ms. Newrick, especially with your agencies incurring that debt, have you thought of doing a collective lawsuit? Your agency and other agencies signed leases based on a commitment from CIC that they would provide funding. That's why you moved into a new site, or the Afghan organization incurred debt, and now you can't get out of the lease. That's technically the government's responsibility, so have you thought of trying to take some kind of legal action? It's not fair for a small agency to be saddled with a debt of that size. I've heard that many other agencies are experiencing the same thing.
The absurd thing is that last year or the year before, they provided funding to buy new equipment and find new sites. The agencies were encouraged to expand. They got the funding, and now--bang--it's gone. In my mind, that's really poor planning.
Putting aside all the politics, have you considered legal action of any kind?