2026年9月11日 美国东部时间11:00 / 福克斯新闻
安德鲁·加巴里诺是9/11恐怖袭击后成立的众议院委员会主席
作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德、汉娜·布伦南 福克斯新闻
众议院国土安全委员会主席安德鲁·加巴里诺接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，分享了自己作为土生土长的纽约人对9/11的记忆，以及这件事如何影响了他在国会的任职经历。
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众议院国土安全委员会主席、纽约州共和党议员安德鲁·加巴里诺清楚记得2001年9月11日世界贸易中心遇袭时自己身在何处。
“我当时是高中高年级学生，在庞齐先生的政府课课堂上。第一架飞机撞楼的时候我们就在教室里，另一位老师走进来告诉了庞齐先生这件事，”他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“我们都以为是一架小型飞机失事。然后我们去上下一节课，接着第二架飞机撞了楼，所有人都意识到事情不对劲了。”
二十五年后的今天，加巴里诺领导着一个国会委员会，负责监督一个正是在此次恐怖袭击后专门设立的内阁部门。他警告称，国会需要改变应对潜在威胁的方式，以避免重演如此规模的悲剧。
“作为委员会主席，同时也是纽约人，这件事是你时刻挂在心上的，你要确保不会再发生另一起9/11事件，永远都不要再发生。这就是我的目标，这是我的优先事项，”他说。
众议院国土安全委员会主席、纽约州共和党议员安德鲁·加巴里诺在2001年9月11日恐怖袭击发生25周年之际，就国会的“自满”情绪敲响了警钟。（Newspix via 盖蒂图片社）
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“国会非常擅长做出反应……我们不希望再发生9/11事件。如果说我能在任上留下些什么印记，那就是让国会对国家安全、国土安全的关注重点转变为，我们要在事件发生前就解决问题。”
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他表示，国会需要养成提前立法的习惯，“而不是等到‘天哪，我不敢相信这种事发生了，怎么会发生这种事，现在就让我们来补救’。”
“9/11之所以发生，就是因为我们的情报机构各自为政，没有共享信息。我不知道这是不是自满或者其他什么原因，但当时确实存在很多问题，”加巴里诺说。“我不想陷入同样的自满情绪。”
加巴里诺代表纽约州第二国会选区，该区域位于长岛南岸。作为纽约市的郊区，这里的居民对25年前的那场悲剧感同身受。
“那天失去亲人的人们，二十五年后依然在承受痛苦，”加巴里诺说。“所以伤疤依然存在。”
他的选区和其他地区的民众至今仍在遭受当日事件引发的疾病困扰，包括勇敢冲向倒塌双子塔的急救人员。
“如今死于9/11相关疾病的人数已经超过了当日遇难的人数。所以这一天仍在不断夺走我们的生命，”加巴里诺说。
“有些消防员，9/11那天是他们出的第一次警，当时他们只有21、22岁。现在他们已经47岁了……很多这类癌症需要一段时间才会显现，他们现在才开始发病。”
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2001年9月11日，两架被劫持客机撞击纽约市双子塔后，人们从即将倒塌的世界贸易中心撤离。（盖蒂图片社）
今年早些时候，唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了由加巴里诺等人提出的法案，以解决世界贸易中心健康项目预计出现的资金短缺问题。该项目帮助幸存者支付医疗费用。
他表示，全国几乎所有国会选区都至少有一人参与该项目，这证明这场悲剧的影响有多广泛。
“9/11事件后从全国各地赶来帮忙的人后来搬离了纽约，回到家乡后也患上了相关疾病。所以这场灾难影响的是整个国家，”加巴里诺说。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，负责报道众议院事务。此前曾在《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻发表报道。
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Top House chairman warns Congress against ‘complacency’ 25 years after 9/11
September 11, 2026 11:00am EDT / Fox News
Andrew Garbarino chairs a House committee created after the September 11 terrorist attacks
By Elizabeth Elkind, Hannah Brennan Fox News
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino spoke with Fox News Digital about his memories of 9/11 as a native New Yorker and how it has impacted his time in Congress.
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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., remembers exactly where he was when the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.
“I was a senior in high school. I was in Mr. Ponzi’s government class. And that’s when the first plane hit. And one of the other teachers came in and was telling Mr. Ponzi about it,” he told Fox News Digital. “We all thought it was a little plane. And then we went to the next class. And then the second plane hit, and everybody realized that stuff was wrong.”
Twenty-five years later, Garbarino leads a congressional committee that oversees a Cabinet department created explicitly after the terror attack. He’s warning that Congress needs to change how it deals with potential threats to avoid another tragedy of that scale.
“Being chairman of the committee, being a New Yorker, it’s one of those things you focus on, and you want to make sure another 9/11 doesn’t happen, and doesn’t ever happen again. And that’s my goal. That’s my priority,” he said.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., is sounding the alarm against congressional “complacency,” 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.(Newspix via Getty Images)
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“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 safety, is that we address an issue before something happens.”
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He said Congress needed to get into the habit of passing laws ahead of time, “instead of being like, ‘Oh my God I can’t believe this happened, how did this happen, let’s fix it now.’”
“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,” Garbarino said. “I don’t want to fall into that same complacency.”
Garbarino represents New York’s 2nd Congressional District, part of Long Island’s south shore. As a suburb of New York City, its residents are deeply attuned to that tragedy 25 years ago.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Andrew Garbarino presides over a hearing in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington on Dec. 11, 2025.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“We have people that lost loved ones that day that are still dealing with it 25 years later,” Garbarino said. “So the scar is still there.”
His district and others are also still dealing with illnesses stemming from that day, including first responders who bravely rushed to the collapsing twin towers.
“There are now more people that have died from 9/11-related illnesses than died on the actual day. So it’s a day that keeps taking people away from us,” Garbarino said.
“You have firemen who, 9/11 was their first call. They were 21, 22 years old. They’re now 47… And a lot of these, some of these cancers, they take a while to take hold, and they’re now just getting sick.”
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People rush away from the collapsing World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, after two hijacked airplanes hit the twin towers in New York City in a terrorist attack.(Getty Images)
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed legislation led by Garbarino and others to address a projected funding shortfall for the World Trade Center Health Program, which helps survivors pay for their medical treatment.
He said nearly all congressional districts across the country have at least one person participating in the program, a testament to how widespread the tragedy’s effects are.
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“People moved out of New York, people who came from all over the country after 9/11 to help, they all went back home, they also got sick. So this does affect the entire country,” Garbarino said.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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