Senate Democrats blame McAuliffe loss on disarray around spending bill

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Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill lamenting former Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s election loss in Virginia on Tuesday blamed their own party’s inability to pass infrastructure and social spending legislation before the election.

Their arguments, though, are colored on which side of negotiations they are on and their preference for whether an infrastructure bill should have been passed in the House without a reconciliation bill agreement.

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