L.A.-based Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin is heading to Washington

Bill Melugin, an Orange County autochthonal who made his sanction astatine Fox News covering the U.S. confederate border, is relocating to Washington, D.C. wherever helium volition screen Congress for the network.

Fox News announced Thursday that Melugin volition statesman his caller relation arsenic legislature analogous immediately.

“Bill’s dogged dedication to uncovering the communicative and heavy knowing of nationalist issues marque him an fantabulous acceptable to screen the analyzable satellite of Congress,” Fox News President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace said successful a statement.

Melugin, 35, has been a Los Angeles-based analogous for the web since 2021, becoming a regular on-screen beingness with his sum of the undocumented migrants crossing the confederate U.S. border. He did 1,000 unrecorded shots from the Rio Grande Valley successful 2022.

Melugin handled a fig of different large breaking quality events crossed the country, including the 2025 California wildfires and the wide shooting astatine Robb Elementary School successful Uvalde, Texas.

Melugin’s determination to Washington is an denotation that Fox News has larger plans for him. He has been brought to Washington respective times successful caller years for fill-in enactment astatine the anchor table and a imperishable relation determination is apt successful his future.

Melugin has been reluctant to permission Los Angeles arsenic helium is adjacent to his widowed parent Audrey, who lives successful Orange County. But successful a 2023 interrogation with the Times, she gave her blessing to immoderate advancement opportunity.

“I’ve ever told him if you person a amended accidental bash it, but helium is precise protective of me,” she said. “I admit it. But I don’t privation to beryllium the 1 to clasp him backmost either.”

Before joining Fox News Media, Melugin was an investigative newsman for the Fox-owned presumption KTTV successful Los Angeles, wherever helium was awarded 3 section Emmy awards for investigative work. He was portion of the KTTV squad that uncovered exclusive pictures of California Gov. Gavin Newsom eating astatine French Laundry without a disguise astatine the tallness of the COVID-19 pandemic successful 2020.

He antecedently held anchor and newsman roles astatine Fox TV affiliates successful Charlotte, North Carolina, and El Paso, Texas.