President Barack Obama is likely to make public remarks on General Motors Corp. (GM) on Monday, the White House said.

Administration spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday the president would discuss the auto maker "presumably on Monday," but declined to say if Obama would announce that GM is going into bankruptcy.

The White House won't make any final decisions on whether to force GM into bankruptcy until after 5 p.m. Saturday, the deadline for the company's unsecured bondholders to accept a new debt-for-equity exchange, an administration official said earlier Thursday.

A host of cabinet and other administration officials will fan out across the Midwest in the days after Obama's Monday speech to talk up the auto-sector recovery effort with affected communities and workers.

According to the White House, 12 officials, including Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, will make appearances in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin June 2-5.

"At each event, they will discuss immediate ways the federal government is cutting through red tape to bring relief to auto communities and achieve long-term economic revitalization for our communities that depend on the auto and manufacturing industry," the White House said in a statement.

-By Henry J. Pulizzi, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-9256; henry.pulizzi@dowjones.com