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What is an iron triangle?

What is an iron triangle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (politics) The policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy (executive) (sometimes called "government agencies"), and interest groups.
  2. Any self-reinforcing power structure, whether intentional or accidental, formal or informal.
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And only the most senior scientists today can stand up against this alarmist gale, and defy the iron triangle of climate scientists, advocates and policymakers.
Each constituency of the iron triangle has its reasons to be generous to Democrats.
The so-called Iron Triangle near Flushing and Corona does not have sanitary sewers and includes more than 200 chop shops and other industrial operations.
The value of National Security literature is to show that like any other person or segment of society the Iron Triangle is influenced by a wide range of factors including different political systems.
Like Trump, he knew that iron triangle better than anyone.
The bureaucracy's policy-making role has often been depicted by what traditionally has been called the iron triangle.

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