NASHUA — Hot off the heels of strong Democratic performance in races up and down the ballot across the country, disagreements among the state’s federal delegation about the deal to end the government shutdown were on full display Friday night.

The divide on political strategy was particularly noticeable when, during the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s annual Eleanor Roosevelt dinner, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) argued with a state lawmaker in the audience.

“So let me be clear, nobody wants to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits more than me or more than Sen. [Maggie] Hassan,” Shaheen told a large crowd in a ballroom at the Sheraton Nashua in justifying her decision to be part of brokering the deal with Senate Republicans to end the longest government shutdown in history.

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