With 19 months left in office, Barack Obama is turning his attention to the unfinished business of his presidency, The Hill reported on 21 June 2015.
Obama is rushing to complete a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal, a nuclear agreement with Iran and a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

The president is doing everything he can to convince pro-trade Democratic senators to support fast-track for a second time. They are being told that a separate workers aid program decoupled from the bill will be approved separately.
If they take the leap of faith, the fast-track bill will hit Obama’s desk and he will be well-placed to finish the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
This looks like a to-do item that can still be checked off.

Iran
Obama is closing in on another legacy item: A deal with Iran that would see Tehran give up efforts to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.
Negotiators will convene in Vienna, Austria, next week to finalize the agreement, which has been in the works for two years.
Obama still faces the tough task of selling the agreement to skeptical members of Congress and assuaging traditional U.S. allies, such as Israel and Gulf Arab states.
Congress will have 30 days to review the deal if it is completed by July 9, but that figure will jump to 60 days if it takes longer to finish the negotiations.
If Obama can finalize the deal, the White House hopes it will stand as one of his top foreign policy achievements along with normalizing relations with Cuba.

Infrastructure
Obama has long pointed to infrastructure spending as a way to boost the economy and create jobs, but has been repeatedly thwarted in winning approval of a long-term highway bill.
“It’s the president’s view that the era of short-term patches … must come to an end,” spokesman Josh Earnest said in May, noting that latest short-term funding bill was the 33rd temporary fix for highway funding since 2008.
Most would bet that this piece of business will remain unfinished given the difficulty Obama and congressional Republicans face in agreeing on a way to pay for the new projects.

Climate
As with immigration, Obama has resorted to acting on his own on climate change.
On Friday, his administration took the latest step in that effort by issuing new rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Obama is also pushing for a major international climate accord at a United Nations summit in Paris this winter.

ISIS
Obama was elected as an anti-war president and as he sought reelection, his campaign touted his work to end wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now Obama finds himself in a new fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), with no good options in sight.
Obama has sent additional military advisers to Iraq to train Iraqi troops for the fight amid serious setbacks, including the fall Ramadi.
U.S. officials have said it could be three years before ISIS is uprooted, well into the first term of the next president.
“In 2017 there will be a new commander-in-chief and someone else who will have a responsibility to evaluate the situation on the ground,” Earnest said in May. “That’s something that we’ll leave to the next president.”.