Top Fox Reporter Gets Engaged To GOP Congressman

A senior Fox News reporter generated headlines Tuesday when People magazine reported that she is now engaged to a moderate Republican congressman who recently drew the ire of the Trump base for voting against the Big Beautiful Bill.

Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, the network’s 36-year-old White House correspondent, is engaged to Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), the outlet reported. Heinrich told People that the congressman, 51, popped the question during a recent trip to France late last month.

“Heinrich says the seeds for Fitzpatrick’s proposal plan were first planted last year, when she revealed in a Boston Globe interview that it was her long-held dream to take a trip to the French Riviera ‘to eat the baguettes, see the lavender fields, drink the wine and eat the butter,’ People reported.

Fitzpatrick evidently “paid attention” to the request and booked a trip to France for Heinrich as a birthday present. “He said, ‘I’m going to take you this summer to the South of France,’ ” she recalled.

While the couple had a lengthy itinerary for the trip, they knew it was likely to be cut short when the congressman would be forced to fly back to Washington D.C. in order to vote on the Big Beautiful Bill. With this in mind, Heinrich asked Fitzpatrick if he would like to postpone the trip, which led her to believe that there might be more to it.

“He was like, ‘We are going. We’re going to the lavender fields. All I want is to see the lavender fields at sunrise,'” she recalled jokingly. “All the time I’ve known this man, he has never been desperate to see a field of flowers at dawn. So I had a feeling that [a proposal] was the goal.”

Fitzpatrick, who represents a moderate district outside Philadelphia that often trends towards Democrats in presidential elections, has long supported GOP agenda items despite breaking ranks on a few occasions. The July 3 Big Beautiful Bill vote marked his sharpest deviation from the party yet, however, as he became one of just two House Republicans to vote against.

According to a report from Punchbowl News, which appears to be corroborated by public statements form Fitzpatrick, the congressman reportedly voted against the bill to protest President Trump’s decision to pause weapons shipments to Ukraine. The president has since reauthorized the shipments, however, and has not commented on launching a primary challenge against Fitzpatrick.