Republican Congressman Gets Engaged To Fox News Correspondent

Here’s an interesting love story.

Republican Representative Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania is now engaged with Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.

Rep. Fitzpatrick asked Heinrich to marry him while visiting France.

People Magazine had more details on how the engagement went down:

Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich is engaged.

The 36-year-old senior White House correspondent said “yes” to Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in a romantic proposal in France, on June 29. Heinrich tells PEOPLE that the Pennsylvania congressman, 51, popped the question at sunrise in the middle of a lavender field in Valensole, a picturesque hilltop town in Provence.

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.”

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

While the couple had an ambitious itinerary of “bucket list” sights they wanted to hit, they knew their long-awaited trip was likely to be cut short at any moment due to Fitzpatrick needing to fly back to Washington, D.C., to vote on The One Big Beautiful Bill. In light of this, Heinrich asked Fitzpatrick if he wanted to postpone the getaway — and that’s when she got her first inkling that he had something more up his sleeve.

“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 recounts, joking, “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.”

After first arriving in Nice, the couple left at 1:30 in the morning on Sunday, June 29, and drove more than two hours to Valensole so they could be there before dawn. At one point, Fitzpatrick slammed on the brakes and said to Heinrich, “Alright, this field looks good. Why don’t you walk out into that field and I’ll take some pictures of you.”

As she strolled, taking in the seemingly endless purple landscape, a photographer suddenly popped up from within the rows of lavender, and a drone flew overhead, ready to capture the moment. Fitzpatrick asked Heinrich to marry him, presenting a ring he selected from the journalist’s long-time family jeweler in Portland, Maine. The sparkler features a brilliant-cut round diamond solitaire on a six-prong platinum setting with a yellow gold band.

Here is a  photo of the moment after:

A match made in MAGA heaven. Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich gets engaged to Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick. pic.twitter.com/vhIADdyN0B

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) July 9, 2025

The Capital Star reported that Fitzpatrick was one of five Republican lawmakers who voted against Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill:

After weeks of debate, Republicans in Congress managed to pass a massive spending bill containing many of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy priorities.

Broadly, the bill includes a slew of tax cuts and increases to defense and immigration enforcement spending, which is partially paid for with cuts to safety net programs like Medicaid and food assistance. Still, the bill is projected to add more than $3 trillion to the country’s debt during the next decade.

Debate over the bill threatened to split the Republican caucus, with deficit-wary hardliners decrying its price tag and others warning of the impacts of cutting social services like Medicaid and food assistance. Ultimately, the final version of the bill passed mostly along party lines, with three Republican senators and two Republican House members joining every Democrat in opposing the final legislation.

The only Pennsylvania Republican to oppose the bill was Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-01), a moderate representing the Philadelphia suburbs.

Fitzpatrick voted in favor of an earlier version of the bill that passed the House, but opposed the amended version that returned from the Senate. It included even steeper cuts to Medicaid than had already been proposed.

“I voted to strengthen Medicaid protections, to permanently extend middle-class tax cuts, for enhanced small business tax relief and for historic investments in our border security and our military,” Fitzpatrick said in a statement after the Thursday afternoon vote. “However, it was the Senate’s amendments to Medicaid, in addition to several other Senate provisions, that altered the analysis for our PA-1 community.”