House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan says Republicans are investigating the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue over what he calls mounting evidence that the organization accepted illegal foreign contributions, and then tried to cover it up when Congress came asking questions.
Jordan laid out the case during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily on April 21, describing a pattern of resignations, a firing, Fifth Amendment invocations, and what he characterized as misleading statements to Congress by ActBlue's own leadership. The committee released an interim report the day before his appearance, and Jordan did not mince words about what it found.
The platform raises billions for Democrats every election cycle. Jordan told listeners the investigation has uncovered a troubling sequence: four senior fraud-prevention and legal staffers resigned, a fifth, the general counsel, was fired with a large severance package, and when Congress deposed all five, every one of them refused to answer questions.
The scale of that refusal is now documented. The New York Post reported that ActBlue employees invoked the Fifth Amendment at least 146 times in depositions conducted between July and December 2025. Two current officials and three former lawyers declined to answer any substantive questions from congressional investigators.
Jordan put it plainly on the air:
"Last point I would make is this; when we depose the Judiciary Committee, deposed all five of those people, I told you about the four who resigned and the fifth who was fired, when we deposed them all, every single one of them exercised their fifth amendment liberties and would not answer our questions."
The interim staff report from the House Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees was blunt in its assessment. "Their unwillingness to testify only amplifies the Committees' concerns," it stated. The report went further: "The crux of this misconduct is simple: ActBlue appears to have accepted illegal foreign donations en masse and tried to cover it up, lying to and withholding information from Congress in the process."
That is a serious accusation from a congressional committee, and it did not come out of nowhere. The trail of evidence Jordan described starts with a letter Congress sent to ActBlue's CEO, identified in supporting reports as Regina Wallace-Jones, and runs through internal legal warnings, document withholding, and press reporting that contradicted what ActBlue told lawmakers.
Jordan told Breitbart News Daily that the New York Times reported ActBlue's own counsel at Covington, one of Washington's most prominent law firms, indicated the CEO's response to Congress "may have misrepresented things." Jordan's phrasing was characteristically direct:
"We find out their CEO was sent a letter by Congress a while back. And we find out from the news, New York Times reported this, that the response that she gave to inquiry from Congress, according to her counsel, according to ActBlue's counsel, Covington, big law firm, they said she may have misrepresented things, which is a nice way of saying you weren't square."
He then added: "You were lying to Congress."
The Covington connection matters for another reason Jordan was eager to highlight. He said Dana Remus, who served as White House Counsel in the Biden administration, was working at the firm.
"Not just any lawyer. We're talking Dana Remus, White House Counsel in the Biden administration, who was working at that law firm... Covington law firm.... This is a tuned-in Democrat, high-profile lawyer who was the White House Counsel for President Biden."
Jordan did not allege Remus was personally involved in wrongdoing, but the implication was clear: the Democratic legal establishment was deeply embedded in ActBlue's response to congressional scrutiny. That proximity between Democratic power centers and the party's fundraising apparatus is exactly the kind of entanglement that invites hard questions, the kind that documentary evidence of coordination between the Biden White House and Democratic prosecutors has already raised in other contexts.
Jordan also flagged what he described as inexplicable fundraising patterns during the 2024 election cycle. First-time candidates nobody had heard of were pulling in millions every quarter through ActBlue. He didn't name names, but the question he posed was pointed:
"No one ever heard of this person running for Congress. And that kind of money is coming in. And again, it looks like, and this is why we're digging into it, that they are taking foreign contributions."
Federal law prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to American political campaigns. If ActBlue's platform lacked adequate safeguards, or worse, if those safeguards were deliberately weakened, the implications extend well beyond one organization. Every Democratic candidate who benefited from those dollars would face questions about the integrity of their funding.
The Washington Examiner reported that House Republicans are now warning they may hold CEO Regina Wallace-Jones in contempt or compel ActBlue leadership to testify if the organization does not turn over subpoenaed documents. Reps. Bryan Steil and Jim Jordan sent ActBlue a letter stating: "Given ActBlue's demonstrated history of misleading Congress, there is considerable reason to believe that ActBlue may have deliberately withheld this responsive material to impede our investigation." The letter added: "Absent these steps, the Committees are prepared to use available mechanisms to enforce our subpoenas."
That is not idle posturing. House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil has already scheduled a public hearing for May 19 and invited Wallace-Jones to testify. As Fox News reported, Steil said flatly: "The CEO of ActBlue needs to come clean, provide the information to Congress that we've requested." He also wrote that "based upon recent reporting, it appears that ActBlue's production to the committee's July 2025 subpoena was deliberately incomplete."
Jordan spent part of his Breitbart interview drawing a contrast that conservative voters will find familiar. For a decade, Democrats insisted foreign influence tainted American elections, specifically, that Russia helped elect President Trump. Jordan called that narrative "all garbage" and pointed to the discredited Steele dossier as proof.
Now, he argued, the evidence points the other way:
"What have the Democrats been saying for 10 years? President Trump had foreign help in his election to Russia, for helping President Trump, which was all garbage. And we proved that with the whole, you know, the whole bogus dossier and everything else... but here it looks like they're doing the same."
He added: "They're the ones who were doing it."
Jordan framed the stakes in terms that go beyond partisan scorekeeping. "You don't want foreign governments to influence your election," he said. "This is an American election. This is about our citizens, about the American people, and you don't want some foreign money contributing because, I mean, there's the potential that members are then influenced by foreign contributions."
The pattern of Democratic figures facing scrutiny for conduct they loudly condemned in others is becoming a recurring feature of this political era. Campaign finance questions have dogged other prominent Democrats as well, and the party's internal tensions have only grown as these stories accumulate.
Newsmax confirmed that Republicans are intensifying the probe, with Steil citing reporting that ActBlue took a "fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention." Steil, Jordan, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote jointly that "there is considerable reason to believe that ActBlue may have deliberately withheld this responsive material to impede our investigation," as Newsmax reported.
The May 19 hearing will be the next major test. If Wallace-Jones appears, she will face questions about the resignations, the firing, the Fifth Amendment invocations, the alleged document withholding, and the New York Times reporting that her own lawyers flagged potential misrepresentations. If she refuses, contempt proceedings are on the table.
No formal charges have been filed. No agency has announced findings. But the circumstantial picture Jordan painted, mass resignations, a fired general counsel, 146 Fifth Amendment invocations, an interim report alleging foreign donations "en masse," and a CEO whose own lawyers questioned her candor with Congress, is not the profile of an organization with nothing to hide.
The broader Democratic landscape offers little comfort to the party faithful. Internal frustrations within Democratic ranks are already running high, and the ActBlue investigation threatens to compound the damage by calling into question the very money that funds the party's campaigns.
Meanwhile, the accountability mechanisms that Republicans have pushed in other congressional cases suggest the majority is not inclined to let this matter quietly fade.
Democrats spent years lecturing the country about foreign money in politics. If the evidence holds up, it turns out the call was coming from inside the house.