WASHINGTON – Today, the Committee on House Administration, the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a joint interim staff report titled, "Fraud on ActBlue, Part II: Illicit Foreign Donations and a Cover-Up Spur Mass Resignations and Firings on ActBlue's Legal and Compliance Team." 
 

The report details the mass exodus of the Democrat fundraising platform's legal and compliance teams in the months following the 2024 election. The report also reveals that the five current or former employees at ActBlue who appeared for depositions all invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during questioning - for a total of 146 times.
 

Excerpts from the report read:  
 

"Documents produced pursuant to the Committees’ subpoenas show the collapse of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team in the months after the 2024 election. By March 2025, every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team resigned, was fired, or went on extended leave from the platform." 
 

"According to subsequent media reports, this mass exodus was a direct consequence of ActBlue’s failure to deter illegal foreign political donations—which the Committees first uncovered in April 2025—and CEO Regina Wallace-Jones’s previous misstatements to Congress." 
 

"Put simply: every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team appears to have left the platform after the 2024 election because of its 'knowing and willful' acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up." 
 

"The Committees conducted five depositions with key ActBlue fraud-prevention and legal personnel to obtain more information about the fraud-prevention failures detailed in the Committees’ first report and the cover-up detailed here. The employees invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every single one of the Committees’ substantive questions—146 times in total." 

The release of the full staff report comes after the Chairmen sent a follow up letter to Ms. Wallace-Jones last week demanding the organization fully comply with past subpoenas.  

Read the full staff report and appendix here. 

Read the transcripts from depositions with current and former ActBlue staff here.

The Committees remain committed to protecting the integrity of our elections and will take all necessary steps to get answers for the American people. 

Background:

On October 31, 2023, following reports that ActBlue, a major Democrat fundraising platform, was accepting political contributions without a card verification value (CVV), Chairman Steil sent a letter demanding answers on ActBlue's practices, questioning if they are complying with federal campaign finance laws and preventing foreign and illegal contributions.

On November 27, 2023, ActBlue responded to Chairman Steil's letter saying it did not require a CVV in order to contribute on their website.

On September 6, 2024, Chairman Steil introduced H.R. 9488, the Secure Handling of Internet Electronic Donations (SHIELD) Act. The legislation prohibits political committees from accepting an online contribution unless the contributor provides the CVV and billing address associated with the card and from accepting online contributions from prepaid cards. It also adopts a top legislative recommendation from the FEC to prohibit individuals from knowingly aiding or abetting a person making a contribution in the name of another person.

On September 11, 2024, the SHIELD Act passed the Committee on House Administration by a voice-vote.

On September 18, 2024, Chairman Steil sent letters to the Attorneys General from Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, and Missouri, updating them on the Committee's investigation into ActBlue. Along with the letter, the Attorneys General received the data and evidence that the Committee has collected over the course of almost a year. 

On October 28, 2024, Chairman Steil sent a letter to ActBlue demanding documents and information related to the platform's donor verification policies and potential vulnerabilities that foreign actors may exploit to illegally participate in the U.S. political process.

On October 30, 2024, Chairman Steil issued a subpoena to ActBlue for documents related to ActBlue's donor verification policies and the potential for foreign actors to use the platform to launder illicit money into U.S. political campaigns.

On December 10, 2024, Chairman Steil released findings from his subpoena of ActBlue.

On March 10, 2025, Chairman Steil and Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer and Rep. Langworthy sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting access to suspicious activity reports previously withheld by the Biden Administration.

On April 2, 2025, the Committee on House Administration, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a joint interim staff report that revealed ActBlue made its fraud-prevention rules “more lenient” twice in 2024—even though there is extensive fraud on the platform, including from foreign sources.

On April 2, 2025, the Committee on House Administration, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to ActBlue requesting documents and transcribed interviews.

On June 25, 2025, Chairmen Steil, Jordan and Comer issued two subpoenas, to a current and a former ActBlue employee, after they both failed to comply with the Committees' request for transcribed interviews.

On July 22, 2025, Chairmen Steil, Jordan and Comer issued a subpoena to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones for materials related to the Committees' investigation into the fundraising platform.

On September 4, 2025, Chairmen Steil, Jordan and Comer issued subpoenas to one current and two former employees at ActBlue to appear for depositions.  

On April 2, Chairmen Steil, Jordan and Comer released a statement following a New York Times report that ActBlue may have intentionally misled Congress early in the investigation. 

On April 14, Chairmen Steil, Jordan and Comer sent a letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones demanding the Democrat fundraising platform fully comply with the Committees’ joint investigation and turn over all previously requested material, as well as additional documents and communications. 

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