ActBlue CEO to testify before House panel on foreign donation claims

ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones will testify in a public hearing before the House Administration Committee on June 10, a committee spokesman told Fox News Digital.

The appearance comes as the Democratic fundraising platform faces scrutiny over whether it misled Congress about its handling of foreign donations. Under U.S. law, foreign nationals who are not lawful permanent residents are generally barred from contributing to federal candidates or political action committees.

House Administration Committee Chairman Brian Steil, R-Wis., said Wallace-Jones allegedly misled the panel at the start of its investigation into ActBlue’s fraud prevention standards. “It’s past time we set the record straight and got answers for the American people,” Steil said in a statement.

The committee’s inquiry began in 2023 after ActBlue stopped requiring credit card verification values on donations. A New York Times report earlier this year said the group’s then-outside counsel warned Wallace-Jones in 2023 that ActBlue may have misrepresented facts to the committee about its vetting of potentially illegal foreign contributions.

Steil first invited Wallace-Jones to testify on May 19. ActBlue’s lawyers called the request a partisan attack. Republicans have said ActBlue withheld documents in response to subpoenas issued in 2025, describing the production as deliberately incomplete.

All five current or former ActBlue employees who gave depositions in April invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination a combined 146 times, according to an interim House Republican staff report.

In an April letter, Steil and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Wallace-Jones there was reason to believe ActBlue may have withheld material to slow the probe. The letter also ordered the group to turn over documents on its review of foreign contributions.

Wallace-Jones has denied making false statements to Congress. ActBlue’s lawyers have called the investigation politically motivated and said the group has been forthcoming.

The June hearing follows the House Administration Committee’s unanimous approval of legislation aimed at curbing fraudulent political donations, including illegal foreign contributions.