WASHINGTON -- The White House schedule Friday calls for President Donald Trump to meet with prominent CEOs, including the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Toby Cosgrove. Some call this Trump's CEO kitchen cabinet, and the group -- officially called the President's Strategic and Policy Forum -- was formed in December, before Trump was inaugurated and started signing executive orders.

The council is supposed to advise Trump on ways in which this country can spur faster economic growth, expand technology and boost employment. Politic are not directly on its agenda. Regulation, taxes, trade and women in the workforce are.

But some of the executives, including Cosgrove, find their employees on the receiving end of a presidential order that last week denied foreign workers entry to the United States and raised employee protests from Cleveland to Seattle. Other members of the council include top executives of Uber and Tesla -- or did, until Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick quit the Trump group Thursday.

"The executive order is hurting many people in communities all across America," Kalanick said in a letter explaining his decision to employees. The decision was first reported by Recode Thursday afternoon. "Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and quite honestly to Uber's," the CEO said.

Trump said his order was necessary to weed out potential terrorists. Tech CEOs and employees, as well as doctors, said it was preposterous. Lawsuits have been filed and several federal judges have issued temporary court orders to stop the government from keeping out people who have legal authority to be here.

Ahead of the meeting, a letter is circulating among major tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, to oppose Trump's ban preventing people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from traveling to the United States for 90 days. Some of those people hold work permits but happened to be out of the country or returning when Trump signed the order Friday, and its implementation tangled airports over the weekend.

A Cleveland Clinic internal medicine doctor, returning from a vacation in the Middle East, was sent back. Two other doctors had their entry back into the United States delayed. This was repeated for employees of other companies, and the tech industry employs many foreign-born, visa-holding workers.

According to Recode, the industry wants to find CEOS outside the tech world to sign the protest letter. 

Business council stacked with CEOs, but @travisk and @elonmusk have been getting bulk of flack for joining. Meeting to take place tomorrow

More importantly here, Fortune reports that tech titans want signatories to be on the letter by 5 p.m. today so they can deliver the letter before the Friday meeting.

Among the critics expected at Trump's Friday meeting are BlackRock's Larry Fink, IBM's Ginni Rometty, JP Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Fortune reports. The advisory group is headed by Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman. 

Will the CEOs bring this up to Trump?

Reporters and, more importantly, workers will be waiting to find out. Cleveland Clinic employees have already held their own protest against Trump's policy. And Cosgrove is facing criticism of his refusal to cancel a Feb. 25 Cleveland Clinic fund-raising event at Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, Florida.

A silent protest for a doctor sent away

As reported by Stat, more than 1,000 people, many of them doctors or healthcare professionals, have signed a letter protesting the decision to stick with the Trump-owned club.

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