staffer

noun

staffer

noun

Etymology From staff + -er.

1

A member of a staff; an employee.

  • The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.
  • But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN.2025 April 25, Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, “DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say”, in CNN:
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  • But then around midday on Friday the post was taken down from Trump’s Truth Social account and the White House claimed that posting it had been a mistake by a staffer.2026 February 7, Richard Luscombe, Shrai Popat, Robert Mackey, “Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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