WASHINGTON, D.C. (KHON2) -- Questions remain regarding federal funding for Maui wildfire survivors as power shifts will be underway in Washington D.C. next year. At Wednesday's Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Hawaii's Senator Brian Schatz got updates from federal officials on recovery efforts. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Federal officials have recently said that building long-term infrastructure is in jeopardy if no more federal funding is passed and Wednesday the Housing and Urban Development Acting Secretary said at some point there is going to be a need to shut down some of the temporary housing arrangements with the current funding situation. Recovery in Lahaina is underway with one home rebuilt and 116 permits in the works. "We're sort of moving from the disaster response stage to the disaster recovery stage, and the dollars that we're trying to secure, in the month of December will allow Mayor Bissen and others to try to invest in housing," Sen. Schatz said. "A lot of good things have happened in terms of the disaster response, but the one thing where we're really lagging is we need new housing. Twelve-hundred structures were destroyed, about 4,000 individual households. And as you know, 12,000 people not living in their houses. This is something that we can solve, but it's not gonna be instantaneous and we do need federal funding for it." Lassner speaks on Angelos dismissal as UH Athletics Director Sen. Schatz adds that partisanship is the biggest roadblock and that it's unclear whether somebody from one part or the other will try to throw a wrench in the works. "The good news is that we're working on a bipartisan basis, to try to get a disaster supplemental package passed in December, and it's really a bipartisan effort," Senator Schatz said. "Thom Tillis, Senator from North Carolina, he's a guy I disagree with a lot, but he's a good guy. And they had some really devastating floods in, especially, Western North Carolina and so we're working together to try to hold together a bipartisan coalition. And our both of our views is that look, we're gonna disagree about a lot of stuff. But the one thing that we should not disagree is that when our neighbors, our friends, our coworkers, are in trouble when a disaster hits, the federal government has to be that backstop." As Republicans get set to take over the executive branch, the Senate, and possibly the House of Representatives, Schatz said the shift of power isn't what makes the urgency in Maui's situation. Find more Hawaii, Oahu, Maui and Kauai news here "We gotta get this done because we gotta get this done. We gotta get this done because people have been waiting for more than a year for this recovery money. I don't think that the reason to get this done is because, the Senate is gonna change hands from, from Democrat to Republican or the presidency. The door swings both ways in Washington. I've now been in the Senate for more than 12 years and I've been in the minority and been in the majority. And the cool thing about the Senate is you're able to be effective regardless of whether or not you're, like, in charge. So I'm not so much saying we need to get this done before Washington changes hands. I'm saying we gotta get this done because people have been waiting too damn long."