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Dave Boyer

dboyer@washingtontimes.com

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Democrats ‘don’t care about the children’

Democrats are exploiting illegal immigrant children for their own political purposes, President Trump asserted Thursday, seemingly preparing the country for the failure of a number of GOP immigration bills on Capitol Hill.

June 21, 2018
First lady Melania Trump speaks at a roundtable at Upbring New Hope Children Center run by the Lutheran Social Services of the South in McAllen, Texas, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Melania Trump makes surprise visit to detention facility in Texas

First lady Melania Trump made a surprise visit Thursday to a shelter for illegal immigrant children in Texas amid the furor over President Trump's rescinded family separation policy, expressing her desire to see the children reunited with their parents "as quickly as possible."

June 21, 2018
President Donald Trump listens to Vice President Mike Pence speak before signing an executive order to end family separations at the border, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump’s executive order on family separations prompted by disturbing TV images

It was another case of President Trump taking action because of disturbing images of children on TV. Mr. Trump signed a hastily drawn-up executive order Wednesday to stop border authorities from separating illegal immigrant children from their parents, less than 24 hours after he defended his administration's policy of splitting up families.

June 20, 2018
In this Aug. 30, 2013, file photo, Americans for Prosperity Foundation Chairman David Koch speaks in Orlando, Fla. Koch is stepping down from the Koch brothers network of business and political activities. The 78-year-old cited health reasons in a letter distributed to company officials on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Conservative groups launch ad campaign opposing tariffs

Conservative advocacy groups aligned with GOP mega-donors Charles and David Koch said Wednesday they'll begin airing ads in Washington next week opposing tariffs, a campaign that comes just as President Trump escalates his tariff feud with China.

June 20, 2018
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Joe Hagin walks to the White House as he arrives on the South Lawn, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Washington. Schiller is returning with President Donald Trump, who is returning from a vacation to Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Joe Hagin, White House deputy chief of staff, resigns

The White House announced the resignation Tuesday of deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, who coordinated the logistics of President Trump's historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un just a week ago.

June 19, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks at the beginning of a National Space Council meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump threatens China with additional tariffs

President Trump escalated his trade feud with China on Monday night, threatening to impose tariffs of 10 percent on another $200 billion worth of Chinese goods in retaliation for previous tariffs and Beijing's intellectual-property practices.

June 18, 2018
President Trump, for his part, said he won't accept the border being overrun. "The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility. It won't be," he said. (Associated Press)

Republicans abandon Donald Trump over ‘zero tolerance’ border policy

Congressional Republicans beat a full-scale retreat Monday from the administration's zero-tolerance border policy, joining Democrats to demand that President Trump stop jailing parents and find ways to keep families together while trying to stop a new surge of illegal immigration.

June 18, 2018