WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is meeting with leading CEOs to discuss ways to promote the economy and create jobs during his last two years in office.
Obama on Wednesday will attend the quarterly meeting of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs. Obama plans to give a speech and take questions.
The White House says Obama will use the meeting to promote bipartisan opportunities to grow the economy and the middle class, such as tax reform, infrastructure spending and trade agreements.
In the weeks since the midterm elections, Obama has cited those three issues as examples of where Democrats and Republicans might be able to compromise. Heavy Democratic losses in the elections diminished Obama’s prospects for passing most of his other legislative priorities before leaving office.