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 activites, Associated Press photographer Julia Demaree Nikhinson sublty snapped Vought’s handiwork from over his shoulder.

White House budget director Russ Vought was snapped sketching a pastoral tableau during a lengthy Cabinet meeting Tuesday. MediaPunch / BACKGRID

The 49-year-old director of the Office of Management and Budget had drawn pine trees backdropped by rolling mountains and topped by a pair of cumulus clouds st

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