career officials
Long-term government employees
Career officials are government employees who remain in their positions across different administrations, as opposed to political appointees who change with elections.
They typically rise through civil service ranks based on expertise rather than party affiliation: Career officials at the State Department pushed back against the new policy.
The term often appears in discussions of tension between permanent bureaucracy and elected leadership.
- civil servantsGovernment agency employees
- public servantsGovernment-employed workers
- analystsThose who dissect data
- bureaucratsAdministrative government employees
- policymakersOfficials who create rules
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- government jobscivil servant, civil servants, federal jobs, public servant, government jobs
- civil servicecivil servants, bureaucrat, civil servant, administrator, clerk
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