Andrew Garbarino: “We pat ourselves on the back. We say these programs work. We have no idea of efficacy.”

Congress is very good at being reactive... We don't want another 9/11. So if I could leave my fingerprints on something here, it's the fact that the focus, Congress' focus on national security, Congress' focus on homeland security or…

That's why 9/11 happened. 9/11 happened because our intelligence agencies, they were siloed, they were not sharing information. I don't know if it was a complacency or whatever, but there were a lot of problems.

I don’t want to be mean.

I appreciate President Trump’s responsiveness, engagement, and swift action to heed my calls and reverse these drastic and dangerous funding cuts to vital DHS grants, which support New York City’s counterterrorism efforts.