WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is seeking to build public support for his $447 billion jobs plan before formally sending the bill to Congress Monday.

The president will promote the jobs plan, which focuses on tax cuts and new spending, during an event in the Rose Garden Monday at 10:40 a.m. He will send the bill to Congress later in the day.

Obama will be joined in the Rose Garden by teachers, police officers and firefighters, all of whom the White House says would benefit from the bill's passage.

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