The Democrats’ campaign fundraising platform hauled in record cash while raising troubling questions about foreign donations.
Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for expanded House probes into ActBlue, the Democrats’ behemoth fundraising platform, amid new concerns about foreign funding in U.S. elections.
Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of the House Administration Committee, this week announced the findings from documents the committee obtained through a subpoena of ActBlue issued days before last month’s election. The records revealed that the fundraising platform continued to accept donations using “foreign prepaid/gift cards” into July, when Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign reported record-shattering donation figures.
“ActBlue was accepting foreign gift cards until September. This is ILLEGAL,” the speaker wrote Wednesday on his X account. The Louisiana Republican assured Steil’s committee would “continue this important investigation into ActBlue next Congress.”
“Our work here is just getting started,” Johnson added. […]
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