House Republicans accuse ActBlue of obstructing foreign donation probe

House Republicans are demanding that ActBlue, one of the Democratic campaign’s main fundraising machines, handle international communications, investigating whether the organization knowingly misled lawmakers and dodged subpoenas to hide weaknesses in its screening process aimed at weeding out illegal overseas donations.

House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., collectively outlined their demands in a letter released Tuesday.

“For more than a year, the committees have monitored ActBlue’s ‘fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention,’” the letter states.

“Recent reports…strongly suggest that ActBlue deliberately obstructed the committees’ investigation, including through misleading statements and failure to comply with our subpoenas.”

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The letter is addressed to Regina Wallace-Jones, CEO and president of ActBlue, and is the most recent entry in investigations that began in 2023 when Republicans initially raised concerns about the possible influence of foreign donations on U.S. elections.

It also follows a New York Times report on a memo from Covington & Burling, a law firm, warning that gaps in its protective shielding could pose “a substantial risk to ActBlue.”

The memo, alone, does not imply wrongdoing or indicate that ActBlue accepted international donations. Even so, the report caught the attention of Republicans in Congress.

Steil, Jordan and Comer collectively request that ActBlue produce two internal documents to examine ActBlue’s internal understanding of its own weaknesses.

The first is a resignation letter from Attorney General Aaron Ting — a document Republicans say focuses on liabilities created by the security of ActBlue donations.

Republicans believe the second, a message from former ActBlue legal counsel Zain Ahmad, concerns an ignored whistleblower complaint about the practices.

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Republicans have requested these documents before, but have not received them.

“There is ample reason to believe that ActBlue deliberately withheld this sensitive material to hinder our investigation,” the letter said.

For its part, ActBlue affirmed that it is doing everything possible to ensure that its fundraising complies with legal requirements.

In ActBlue’s own letter published in November 2023, Wallace-Jones, the CEO, asserted that the organization maintains the highest standards in monitoring its fundraising.

“Our approach is multi-tiered, with checks and confirmations throughout the donation process to verify donors and their information,” Wallace-Jones wrote.

“These measures, which include compliance measures, technology tools and manual reviews, help ensure the identity of donors, eliminate potential foreign contributions and protect donors from financial fraud.”

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Republican lawmakers gave ActBlue two weeks to produce the requested documentation, setting the deadline for April 28, 2026.

“In the absence of these measures, the committees are prepared to use available mechanisms to enforce our subpoenas,” the letter said.