Garbarino Warns Congress Against 9/11 Complacency 25 Years After Attacks

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 11

Twenty-five years after 9/11, House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino said Congress must stop reacting only after disasters and focus on preventing the next major attack.
Garbarino tied that warning to pre-9/11 intelligence failures, saying agencies were siloed and not sharing information — a breakdown he does not want Congress to repeat.
New York's 2nd District still feels the attack's toll, he said, with families grieving and first responders developing long-latency cancers linked to their work at Ground Zero.
More people have now died from 9/11-related illnesses than on the day itself, Garbarino said, underscoring why lawmakers earlier this year moved to shore up the World Trade Center Health Program.
That program reaches beyond New York because responders and survivors later dispersed nationwide, making the legacy of 9/11 a continuing national policy issue as well as a memorial one.