Maria Cantwell: “the more I think representing the taxpayer here--and actually I did not hear my colleague say that they did not want the…”

The Northwest will continue to benefit from air assets, and I hope that more of them can be deployed throughout the region, as smoke allows, to help Spokane, Okanogan and all Northeast Washington counties, the Spokane and Colville Tribes…

It is the transformative element that might get somebody from just existing to thriving again.

There are some up here with us who have been evacuated. There are some that have lost their homes. So we are with you in this situation, and we're going to do everything we can to get the federal resources to help you.

The IRS’s address sharing policy therefore violates the statute, improperly displaces Congress’s legislative judgments, undermines the confidentiality of taxpayer information and taxpayer reliance, and threatens the national fisc.