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Dave Boyer

Dave Boyer

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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A pair of traders work in their booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, March 12, 2020. The deepening coronavirus crisis is sending stocks into another alarming slide on Wall Street, triggering a brief, automatic shutdown in trading for the second time this week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Another bloodbath on Wall Street as coronavirus spreads alarm through economy

The coronavirus pandemic spread alarm from Wall Street to Main Street on Thursday, inflicting another bloodbath in the stock market while consumers showed signs of curtailing spending and cancellations hit American institutions as big as professional sports leagues and Broadway productions. Published March 12, 2020

President Trump met with bankers and Wall Street executives at the White House on Wednesday including Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan (left) and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America Rebeca Romero Rainey (right). All the people around the table attested to the health of the U.S. financial system. (Associated Press)

As stocks nose-dive, White House, Democrats craft fiscal rescue plans

Stocks nose-dived again Wednesday on concerns about the growing economic harm from the coronavirus outbreak, while the White House and House Democrats crafted separate fiscal rescue plans including extensions for small business tax payments, free virus testing and paid sick leave. Published March 11, 2020

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., call on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to bring the Democrats' HR-1 "For the People Act" to the floor for a vote, during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi uses coronavirus crisis to push liberal wishlist

The coronavirus crisis has given Democrats a chance to advance key parts of their liberal agenda, with coronavirus sanctuaries for illegal immigrants and government-covered testing and health care for those who suspect they are infected. Published March 10, 2020

In this file photo, President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Vice Chief of Staff Army Gen. Jack Keane in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Jack Keane gets Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump

President Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to retired Gen. Jack Keane, calling the former Vietnam paratrooper and Army vice chief of staff "a courageous warrior and a fearless patriot." Published March 10, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks in the Brady press briefing room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March, 9, 2020, about the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump announces payroll tax cut, expanded sick leave to combat coronavirus

President Trump on Monday proposed emergency measures, including a temporary payroll tax cut and expanded sick leave, to prevent an economic slowdown and to blunt the spread of the coronavirus, as the stock market sustained a rout amid tumbling oil prices and rising concerns about a recession. Published March 9, 2020