Andrew R. Garbarino R

BACKGROUND

• Garbarino, 40, of Patchogue, is running on the Republican Party line in the general election. He was elected to Congress in 2023 and previously served four two-year terms in the State Assembly. 
• He is from Sayville, where he worked in a hardware store and graduated from Sayville High School.
• Garbarino graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor’s degree, and received his law degree from Hofstra University. He is an attorney.

ISSUES

• Garbarino said he would fight inflation that he blames on Democratic spending policies.
• Garbarino said he would seek to restore full deductibility on federal income taxes of New Yorkers’ state and local taxes, known as SALT, that were reduced under a Republican tax package during the Trump administration.
• He said he supports finishing the wall along the southern U.S. border that was begun during the Trump administration.