Even budget hawks have a sensitive side.
White House budget director Russ Vought — who President Trump recently depicted as the Grim Reaper relentlessly slashing government headcount — was snapped sketching a pastoral tableau during a lengthy Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
As Trump went around the table for each one of his lieutenants to give glowing reports on their activities, Associated Press photographer Julia Demaree Nikhinson subtly snapped Vought’s handiwork from over his shoulder.
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