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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.

Articles by Dave Boyer

President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing ceremony for the "VA Mission Act" in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump sticks to guns as G-7 summit looms

President Trump won't back down from his tough line on trade as he heads for a showdown this week with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other allied leaders at the G-7 summit in Canada, the White House's top economic adviser said Wednesday, even as Congress took a step to tie the president's hands on tariffs.

June 6, 2018
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is shown standing while listening as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo answers questions from the panel just after President Donald Trump canceled the June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, citing the "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement from North Korea, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 24, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Senators announce bill to stop Trump tariffs

A bipartisan group of senators struck back against President Trump's new tariffs on U.S. allies, announcing legislation Wednesday that would give Congress a chance to review any new duties before they take effect.

June 6, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Texas to meet with families of the Santa Fe school shooting victims, and to attend Republican fundraisers, Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

PromisesKept.com, Trump campaign website, to ‘counter the errors’ of mainstream media

The Trump campaign unveiled Tuesday night an online platform to chronicle President Trump's accomplishments and "counter the errors" of the mainstream media. Campaign manager Brad Parscale said the web site, PromisesKept.com, will serve to tell a different story from the mainstream media "which distort, underreport, and lie about the president's remarkable record since taking office."

June 5, 2018
FILE- In this April 27, 2018, file photo, steel coils are stored at the Thyssenkrupp steel factory in Duisburg, Germany. Duisburg is the biggest steel producer site in Europe. Many small companies in the United States can expect to pay more for steel and aluminum following the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on imports from Europe, Canada and Mexico, small business advocacy groups say. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Koch-funded groups launch broad campaign to oppose tariffs

Groups connected to Republican donors Charles and David Koch announced a multiyear, seven-figure campaign Monday to promote the benefits of trade and opposition to tariffs, in the wake of the Trump administration's new tariffs on steel and aluminum.

June 4, 2018
"We can anticipate, at best, a bumpy road to the [negotiations]," said Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, center. He met with South Korea's National Defense Minister Song Young-moo, left, and Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera for the 17th International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense forum in Asia, in Singapore, on Sunday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

James Mattis: North Korea sanctions could be lifted after summit

Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said Sunday that North Korea will receive relief from sanctions only after taking clear and irreversible steps to end its nuclear program, on the heels of President Trump's announcement that his summit next week with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is back on.

June 3, 2018
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Kim Yong Chol, left, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un's closest aides, after their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2018, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens at center. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump: North Korea summit back on for June 12

President Trump announced Friday that his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will take place as originally planned on June 12 in Singapore as the start of a "process" to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons.

June 1, 2018