Overview
- House Judiciary, Oversight, and Administration chairs sent a letter Tuesday giving ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones until April 28 to produce subpoenaed records or face contempt efforts.
- Lawmakers want policies and communications on blocking foreign nationals from donating, plus internal records tied to resignations and a whistleblower claim that they say were withheld.
- Internal memos from ActBlue’s outside firm, Covington & Burling, warned that 2023 descriptions of “multilayered” screening were not always followed and that it could be alleged the platform accepted foreign-national funds, though the memos did not cite specific illegal transfers.
- Republican investigators previously flagged at least 237 prepaid-card transactions from overseas in September and October 2024 and noted ActBlue did not require a card verification value on card and gift card donations until January 2024.
- ActBlue says Wallace-Jones did not mislead Congress and that the platform remains strong, while a separate Department of Justice review launched by a 2025 presidential directive continues and any contempt referral would go to the DOJ.