At an intense meeting inside the Oval Office on Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson was the odd man out. President Biden made clear that the speaker’s positions were out of step with other leaders in government, as did Vice President Kamala Harris. leader on the other side of the Capitol, emphasized the need for the speaker to avoid a government shutdown and provide badly needed aid to Ukraine. To put it succinctly, Mr. Johnson is in a bind. “There is not a solution that will make everyone happy and unite the Republican Party.”

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Persons: Mike Johnson, Biden, Kamala Harris, Mitch McConnell, Russia — Mr, Johnson, —, Ukraine’s, ”, Vin Weber, Kevin McCarthy Organizations: Capitol, Russia, Republican, Republican Party Locations: Ukraine, United States, Minnesota