Jared Moskowitz

On September 30, 2025, as a government funding deadline loomed, Moskowitz posted on X that 'Democrats are at the table to keep the government open and protect lower health care premiums,' framing his position as a defense of ACA enhanced premium tax credits set to expire at year's end. The government shut down on October 1, 2025, when Senate Democrats refused to pass a Republican short-term spending bill that excluded ACA subsidy extensions. The shutdown became the longest in U.S. history, lasting 43 days until November 12, 2025, when Congress passed a stopgap measure — without ACA subsidy protections — to reopen the government. Republicans simultaneously launched a digital ad campaign targeting Moskowitz's district and blaming Democrats for the shutdown. The stated goal of protecting lower health care premiums was not achieved: the enhanced tax credits were not extended in the eventual deal, leaving their fate unresolved as of May 2026.

When constituents contacted Moskowitz's congressional office in early 2025 demanding public town halls, his office sent a form email response focused on DOGE oversight — not constituent accessibility — leading critics to argue he was deflecting rather than engaging. On March 21, 2025, Moskowitz reposted an article on X claiming Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer was "too chicken" to host town halls, including six chicken emojis — while simultaneously declining to hold any open public town halls himself, drawing immediate accusations of hypocrisy. Rather than open public forums, his team held invite-only events limited to around 20 participants; WLRN requested access to one such event but was denied. At a community event in April 2025, a crowd of nearly 450 people booed loudly when organizer Jennifer Jones announced Moskowitz had declined to attend. Moskowitz finally held a virtual town hall on May 21, 2025 — his first since Trump's inauguration — but it featured pre-selected questions rather than an open-format exchange, prompting ongoing criticism from Democratic organizers who viewed the format as inadequate. As of May 2026, no in-person open public town hall has been confirmed.

On February 13, 2025 — the seventh anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting — Moskowitz introduced the bipartisan Measures for Safer School Districts (MSD) Act (H.R. 1335), co-led with Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) and Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20). The bill would require each school district receiving federal funds to establish emergency response and parental notification procedures, and direct CISA to mandate reinforced interior and exterior doors in schools. It was referred to the House Committees on Education and Workforce and Homeland Security. In February 2026, Moskowitz held a news conference promoting the bill alongside Parkland parents Tony Montalto and Tom Hoyer of Stand with Parkland. As of May 2026, the bill remains in committee with no floor vote scheduled; GovTrack estimates a 15% chance of passing committee and an 8% chance of enactment.

Moskowitz has introduced a multi-bill bipartisan package to reform the Department of Homeland Security. On March 24, 2025, he and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) introduced the FEMA Independence Act, which would remove FEMA from DHS and restore it as an independent, Cabinet-level agency reporting directly to the President. Around May 8, 2026, he and Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC) introduced legislation to move the U.S. Secret Service to the Executive Office of the President, and he co-led with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) the TSA Transfer Act to move TSA to the Department of Transportation. Moskowitz has argued DHS has grown too bureaucratic and that shutdowns unfairly weaponize TSA staffing. As of May 2026, all bills remain in early legislative stages; previous FEMA Independence Act efforts have stalled in committee, and none of the restructuring bills have been passed or signed into law.