Invest in America Forum

The Invest in America Forum is a CNBC-hosted economic policy event series held in Washington DC, focusing on US economic competitiveness and investment flows. On 15 April 2026, the forum hosted FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who told CNBC's Sara Eisen that Iran would attend the 2026 World Cup 'for sure', citing WTO projections of $80.1bn in gross output, $30.5bn inside the US, and 200,000 permanent American jobs.

The forum's economic framing gave Infantino a platform to position the World Cup primarily as an American economic event, subordinating the human rights and immigration enforcement controversies to an investment narrative. His repetition of 'sports should be outside of politics' at an explicitly political-economic event was noted by observers.