Homeland Chairmanship

• FEMA Hospital Reimbursement: Congressman Garbarino spearheaded a successful effort to release over $2 billion in long-delayed FEMA reimbursements to New York hospitals for COVID-19 pandemic expenses. These funds are critical to strengthening our health care system and ensuring our communities are prepared for whatever challenges come next.
•  Counterterrorism Money: $140M in federal funding to strengthen counterterrorism and emergency preparedness efforts across New York, including $1.8M for Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
• Fought to ensure that New York’s allocations under DHS counterterrorism grants like UASI, HSGP, and Operation Stonegarden were not reduced out of line with the formulas utilized to provide this funding under statute.
• 20 bills passed the House out of CHS.
• More than 20 leaders from DHS offices and agencies have testified before the Committee, strengthening congressional oversight of the Department and its security mission.

World Trade Center Health Program

• Funding fix: Secured permanent funding to stabilize the World Trade Center Health Program and ensure continued access to care for 9/11 responders and survivors through the FY26 Omni.
• Job Postings: Helped secure approval for the Program to fill all vacant staff positions, allowing the hiring process to move forward and strengthen patient services.
• Letter on Dr. Howard Reappointment: Led a letter to HHS Secretary Kennedy on the reappointment of Dr. Howard to an additional 6-year term to ensure continuity of the program ahead of the 25th Anniversary. Have not received a response yet.

Middle Class Tax Cuts

• SALT: increased the federal deduction for SALT from $10,000 to $40,000.
• Child tax credit: Increased the Child Tax Credit to $2,200 per qualifying child.
• Senior tax credit: Created an additional deduction of up to $6,000 for each taxpayer age 65 or older.
• Energy tax credits: Preserved the Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Tax Credit and Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit for qualifying nuclear, hydropower, geothermal, energy-storage and other eligible energy projects. Also maintained the Section 45U Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Production Credit for existing nuclear facilities.
• PTET: Fought to preserve the Pass-Through Entity Tax (PTET) deduction, which allows eligible pass-through businesses (like S corporations and partnerships) to continue deducting state and local taxes at the entity level despite the federal SALT cap on individual taxpayers.

Financial Services Committee (Vice-Chair of Capital Markets Subcommittee):

• 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act: Became law in July 2026, this bipartisan legislation is a comprehensive housing package aimed at increasing housing supply, improving affordability, and expanding access to homeownership. The law reforms and creates numerous HUD programs, streamlines environmental reviews for housing projects, encourages zoning and land-use reforms, expands support for manufactured and modular housing, and establishes new pilots for small-dollar mortgages, whole-home repairs, and vacant property redevelopment. It also modernizes mortgage lending and appraisal rules, updates regulations affecting community banks and credit unions, and strengthens oversight of federal housing programs. The final law also prohibits large institutional investors from purchasing most additional single-family homes, but does not include the Senate’s proposed seven-year divestiture requirement. It includes a temporary prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) without an Act of Congress, with the provision expiring on December 31, 2030.

• INVEST Act: This bill passed the House in late 2025 and is now awaiting Senate consideration. The package bundles more than 20 bills and is designed to modernize U.S. capital markets by expanding access to funding for startups and small businesses, broadening investor participation in private markets, and making it easier for companies to IPO. The package raises thresholds and limits across the system, like increasing crowdfunding caps, expanding the size and investor limits for venture capital funds, and modernizing the definition of accredited investors to allow qualification based on knowledge or testing rather than just wealth. It also reduces regulatory burdens on public companies and opens new pathways for retail investors to access private markets. The Senate has said they’re working on their own package but have not released one yet.
• NFIP Extensions: The NFIP continues to be reauthorized through appropriations bills, the most recent being the FY26 Omni. Currently, the NFIP expires on September 30, 2026, but the extension was included in the CR to December 4, 2026 (pending Senate action). ARG’s NFIP Extension Act of 2026 was also marked up in the Financial Services Committee in the event a standalone extension needed to pass under a prolonged shutdown.

Bills Passed Through the House:

• H.R. 7128 – TRIA Program Reauthorization Act (Co-Led)
  • This bill would reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) for an additional 7 years through 2034 with minimal changes to the program. The Program is set to expire at the end of 2027.

• H.R. 1993 – 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act (Co-Led)
  • This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue coins to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the establishment of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center.

• H.R 2096 – Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act (Led)
  • This bill would restore due process rights for Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers in internal disciplinary processes and reverse a change made in 2023 by the DC City Council.

• H.R. 9391 – Reimbursable Screening Services Program (RSSP) Extension Act of 2026 (Led)
  • This bill would extend the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Reimbursable Screening Services Program (RSSP) through FY2031 and expand the pilot program to up to 14 locations. The program allows TSA to be reimbursed for facilitating security screening services outside an airport terminal’s existing screening area.

• H.R. 862 – TSA Commuting Fairness Act (Co-Led)
  • This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to study the feasibility of treating the time TSA employees spend traveling between regular duty locations, airport parking lots, and bus and transit stops as on-duty hours at airports.

• H.R. 2659 – Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act (Co-Led)
  • The bill creates a joint interagency task force to facilitate agency collaboration on efforts to respond to Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors, including Volt Typhoon. 

• H.R. 4070 – Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act (Co-Led)
  • This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit a border threat assessment and strategic plan regarding Tren de Aragua and other transnational criminal organizations.

• H.R. 5078 – PILLAR Act (Co-Led)
  • This bill extends the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program through FY2035, expands the scope of the program, and imposes certain limits on the use of grant funds.

• H.R. 8770 – SAFEGUARDS Act of 2026 (Co-Led)
  • This bill would require Passenger Security Fee (PSF) revenue be put towards TSA security screening purposes following the end of PSF revenue diversion in FY28. The bill would direct these funds to the modernization and sustainment of passenger screening technology, explosive detection systems for checked baggage, and checkpoint technology deployment.

• H.R. 973 – Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act (Co-Led)

• The bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to establish a final consumer product safety standard for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in micro mobility devices, such as electric scooters and bikes, to protect against the risk of fires caused by such batteries.

Delivering for Constituents of NY-02

• Returned more than $36.3 million to constituents

• Responded to over 124,500 constituent inquiries

• Successfully resolved more than 9,800 individual cases

FY26-27 Community Project Funding Results 

• Total Funding Received: $53.2 million