Right-wing media bury stories on Senate GOP delaying vote that would gut American health care

Conservative media outlets buried Senate Republicans’ announcement that they would delay the upcoming vote on their struggling health care bill, instead prominently covering stories about former President Barack Obama’s vacation, the European Union fining Google, and right-wing attacks on CNN.

On June 27, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would delay a vote on its deeply unpopular health care bill. The bill, which would kick 22 million people off of health care, faced opposition from both moderate and far-right Republicans and had no Democratic support, making it unclear if it would pass through the Senate.

After the announcement, right-wing media decided to keep its focus on other stories, as was pointed out on Twitter:

Twitterati didn’t miss the irony of Fox highlighting Obama’s vacation either: