Top House committees accuse Dem fundraising giant of facilitating 'bad actors' in bombshell DOJ letter

FIRST ON FOX: Three apical committees wrong the House of Representatives are delivering an update to the Department of Justice (DOJ) connected Wednesday astir Republicans' ongoing investigation into ActBlue.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Committee connected House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., person been probing the Democratic fundraising level for years.

"The Committees constitute contiguous to gully your attraction to our ongoing probe into ActBlue, a governmental enactment committee and fundraising level for the Democrat Party," the missive said.

"The oversight has uncovered that ActBlue has anemic fraud-prevention practices and overlooks atrocious actors, including overseas actors, who instrumentality vantage of the level to marque illicit governmental donations."

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From near to right, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Committee connected House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote to the DOJ. (Getty Images)

They said the platform's "concerning activities" could adjacent person a "direct effect connected U.S. governmental campaigns and elections."

Steil archetypal raised concerns astir ActBlue successful precocious 2023 aft accusations surfaced that it did not necessitate a paper verification worth (CVV) fig to accept donations via recognition card, thing lawmakers said made donations importantly little secure.

The missive said ActBlue delivered a "lackluster response" to queries connected the matter. As precocious arsenic August 2024, however, the tract had required CVV numbers for donations connected pages observed by Fox News Digital, including erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris' White House campaign.

However, Republicans pressed ActBlue further, the missive pointed out.

Steil's sheet subpoenaed ActBlue for "documents relating to ActBlue's donor verification policies, contributions originating extracurricular of the United States, deplatformed entities, and reported unauthorized oregon fraudulent donations."

Republicans person been investigating ActBlue since 2023. (Fox News)

"ActBlue’s responsive documents confirmed that the level accepted unverified payments during a play of grounds run fundraising," the missive said.

"Although ActBlue has since updated its policies to cull donations without safeguards specified arsenic a CVV requirement, the Committees’ oversight recovered that ActBlue implemented these changes lone aft ensuring that they would not negatively interaction Democrat donations."

Subsequent inquiries into whether ActBlue and related entities were meaningfully deterring overseas actors "have shed immoderate airy connected the quality of their operations, but galore questions remain."

The committees released a study past month, claiming "ActBlue executives and unit are alert that some overseas and home fraudulent actors are exploiting the level but bash not instrumentality the menace seriously."

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The level antecedently dismissed Steil's accusations arsenic "inaccuracies and misrepresentations."

"We rigorously support donors' information and support strict anti-fraud compliance practices. We person zero tolerance for fraud connected our platform," an ActBlue spokesperson said precocious past year.

A DOJ spokesperson confirmed receipt of the missive but declined to remark further.