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As news broke Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would delay a vote on the Senate GOP health care bill, Fox News touted a report on former President Barack Obamas lavish family vacations.

Lap of Luxury, read the lead headline on Fox News online site. Obamas Lavish Globetrotting Vacations Raise Democrats Eyebrows.

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About an hour after news broke on the fate of the health care bill which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates would result in 22 million fewer people with health insurance by 2026and 15 million fewer just in the next year Twitter users took notice of Fox News lead story vacation-shaming Obama, whos currently touring Bali with his family.

Fox News loosely sourced story cites twoleft-wing activists who say theyre troubled by Obamas vacations in the months since he left office.The two sources,Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor Patrick Caddell and David Michael Smith of the Houston Socialist Movement, criticized Obama for leading the lifestyle of the rich and famous.

The story claims that the left-wing media and comedian John Oliver whose sarcastic sense of humor Fox News appears to be unfamiliar with are worried about Obamas luxury vacations. The report cites a February interviewOliver did with Late Night host Seth Meyers in which Oliver jokingly begged Obama to tone it down with the kite-surfing pictures while the U.S. grappled with the new Trump administration.

Trump, if youre curious, has taken costly trips to his Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster resorts for eight of the 23 weekends hes been in office.

Obama spoke out Thursday against the Senates health care bill.

Simply put, if theres a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family this bill will do you harm, he said in a statement. And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, cannot change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation.

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