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President Obama will meet Friday with the top Democrats in the Senate to discuss his American Jobs Act legislation.

Obama will sit down in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), Sen. Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in charge of messaging in the Senate, and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (Wash.) to discuss his jobs creation legislation, according to a Senate Democratic aide.

Obama will meet with the Democrats at 10:25. The meeting was previously scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Obama and Democrats have been working to push through his jobs creation legislation, which is made up of an extension of the employee payroll tax cut, additional infrastructure spending, the establishment of a national infrastructure bank, and additional unemployment insurance benefits.

Earlier this week Democrats modified the legislation so it included fu! nding through a 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires. The original version of the bill proposed tax hikes on families making $250,000 or more a year as well as ending oil-and-gas subsidies. The funding change in the bill appears to be an attempt to entice senators who are on the fence on the legislation to move over to the support column.

On Tuesday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell (R-Ky.) tried to bring the legislation up for a vote but Reid blocked the attempt with a procedural maneuver.

On Thursday at a press conference President Obama said he wanted to see a vote on the bill next week.

Critics of the legislation say the bill is really Obama playing politics since even if it passes the Senate it's likely dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled House.