Chief executive officers from Nvidia Corp., Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly & Co., General Electric Co. and SoftBank Group Corp. are among corporate leaders slated to visit the White House on Wednesday as President Donald Trump highlights the US investments they’ve announced in the first 100 days of his second term in office.
Companies from defense, tech, healthcare and consumer products industries as well as investment funds have been invited to attend and have their products on display in the residence’s foyer, according to a White House official who shared details of the event on the condition of anonymity.
Trump, who will be coming off from a Michigan rally the day before, is expected to tout numerous financial commitments his administration has secured from companies, which it estimates at $2 trillion.
“President Trump has secured more investments in the United States of America in 100 days than Joe Biden did in four years,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
Economists have questioned whether all the pledged spending — which has often come with a White House press conference and to great acclaim from Trump — will come to fruition.
Corporate pledges as of early April amounted to roughly $1.6 trillion in spending and at least 426,000 jobs promised, according to a Bloomberg analysis of announcements made since Trump’s election. That amounts to more than all of the capital spending by companies in the entire S&P 500 in the last calendar year.
The event billed as “Invest in America” comes as major retailers and Wall Street leaders are warning of price increases and fallout from Trump’s trade war. The president maintains that implementing the highest US tariffs in more than a century will jump-start domestic manufacturing, but financial markets and businesses have been roiled by the chaotic rollout and uncertainty.
Last week, Trump met with executives from Walmart Inc., Home Depot Inc. and Target Corp. to discuss trade and tariffs. The discussion came amid a flurry of meetings among the White House, companies and countries seeking to negotiate lower trade levies during a 90-day pause in Trump’s so-called reciprocal import duties.
The Trump administration is considering whether to reduce tariffs targeting the auto industry that are opposed by carmakers, Bloomberg News reported last week.
Even before Trump took office, business leaders — domestic and foreign — have sought to court him, including visiting him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and donating to his inauguration fund. Several of them have appeared with him to tout their US projects.
In a January press conference from Mar-a-Lago, Trump unveiled a $20 billion investment to build new US data centers from Damac Group’s Hussain Sajwani.
In his second day in office, Trump announced a joint venture between SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle Corp. to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure. Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son is also expected to attend the Wednesday event.
His officials have also applauded chipmaking giant Nvidia for its pledge to manufacture its AI supercomputers in the US. The company is seeing a $5.5 billion hit from the administration’s move to block it from selling its H20 chip in China.
Eli Lilly previously pledged to invest $27 billion to build four new manufacturing plants, and Johnson & Johnson offered $55 billion in new investments.
International Business Machines Corp. announced Monday that it planned to invest $150 billion in computing over the next five years.
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