Sen. Marco Rubio Marco Antonio RubioSunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election Florida senators pushing to keep Daylight Savings Time during pandemic Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll MORE (R-Fla.) says lawmakers need to do more to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, with nearly a third of the island's people still lacking power and other resources.

"We need to pass a disaster relief package," Rubio told "CBS This Morning" co-host John Dickerson on Wednesday. "What the House passed was not enough. We have to do more; we're working on doing more."

Rubio's comments came the morning after President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE's first State of the Union address where he mentioned Americans still recovering from a devastating series of hurricanes last year.

Rubio said he is working with fellow Florida Sen. Bill Nelson Clarence (Bill) William NelsonDemocrats sound alarm on possible election chaos Trump, facing trouble in Florida, goes all in NASA names DC headquarters after agency's first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson MORE (D) on new legislation to bring more aid to Puerto Rico.

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"My biggest concern is that we didn't do enough early in the process at the federal level, because we tried to treat it like a conventional storm and it was not," he added.

Rubio said he also disagreed with the decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to end its free supplies of food and water for Puerto Rico this week.

The Trump administration drew criticism for its response to the massive hurricane last fall. Some said the administration was too slow to provide federal assistance.

The president also publicly feuded with the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, when she criticized his response.

The House passed $15.3 billion in short-term relief in September, followed by a $36.5 billion aid package for both hurricane and wildfire relief in October.