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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.

Articles by Dave Boyer

House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asks a question of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, during a committee hearing, Tuesday Sept. 24, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Maxine Waters coronavirus plan threatens insurance industry

Pressure has been building on the insurance industry to reimburse companies big and small for their losses after a proposal began circulating in Congress that would treat the COVID-19 pandemic like an act of terrorism for insurance purposes. Published April 5, 2020

Visitors to the Department of Labor are turned away at the door by personnel due to closures over coronavirus concerns, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in New York. Applications for jobless benefits are surging in some states as coronavirus concerns shake the U.S. economy. The sharp increase comes as governments have ordered millions of workers, students and shoppers to stay home as a precaution against spreading the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Coronavirus rocks U.S. economy; 10 million Americans lose jobs in two weeks

A record 10 million Americans lost their jobs in just two weeks because of the coronavirus shutdown, the government reported Thursday, as states struggle to keep up with the demand for unemployment benefits in the deepest, most rapid shock to the U.S. economy in history. Published April 2, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence, left, and President Donald Trump speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

One America News Network loses seat at Trump coronavirus briefings

The White House Correspondents Association on Wednesday night removed a news organization, the conservative One America News Network, from its seat at President Trump's coronavirus briefings after its reporter disregarded the group's social-distancing guidelines in the press room. Published April 1, 2020

In this Monday, March 30, 2020, photo, a line of around fifty people extends from the door of Arkansas Workforce Center in Fayetteville, Ark. (JT Wampler/The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP) **FILE**

Unemployment offices jammed; lawmakers frustrated benefits will be delivered too slowly

Frustrated people seeking unemployment benefits were encountering jammed phone lines and crashed websites at state unemployment offices nationwide Wednesday, as lawmakers in Washington expressed increasing concern that beefed-up jobless payments from a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package might not reach out-of-work Americans for more than a month. Published April 1, 2020