Manchester, N.H. — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Friday took his frustration with the deal ending the government shutdown to the home field of two fellow Democrats who helped broker the compromise.

Booker leaned into his past as a college football player when asked about Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, who were among the seven Democrats and one independent who broke ranks after concluding that Republicans would not bend on extending health care tax credits under the Affordable Care Act.

“That play is done,” Booker said at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, where a large photograph of Shaheen and Hassan hung on the wall behind him. “I’m not happy about it. I think we lost yardage, and the kind of yardage we lost is not a game, it’s our health care.”

Though he earlier used

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