The swing district Democrat appeared to be on a glidepath towards her party’s nomination for governor. She’s now in the middle her soul-searching.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who spent six years as a prominent Washington politician in Washington, is ending her career in a corner with no windows in the basement of the U.S. Capitol. She was removed from the fifth floor office space at the Cannon House Office Building to allow painters to spruce it up for its next occupant.

Last week, Congress did its best to turn the final days of Virginia Democrat, a Virginia Democrat, upside-down. A budget deal collapsed, a shutdown threat loomed, and her Social Security Fairness Act, which she had co-led, was facing a vote that would determine whether it passed or not in the Senate.