GOP-Led House Report Questions ActBlue’s Fraud Safeguards

A Republican-led House investigation says the ActBlue fundraising platform used by the Democratic Party maintained inadequate safeguards against illegal foreign political donations.

The report, released Wednesday by the House Judiciary, Administration, and Oversight and Government Reform committees, examines the fundraising platform’s passport checks, fraud reviews, and handling of internal concerns.

ActBlue has disputed the claims, calling them a “political stunt.”

According to the report, ActBlue supervisors repeatedly instructed fraud analysts to give donors “the benefit of the doubt,” even when transactions displayed indicators of possible foreign or fraudulent activity.

In one example, an employee recommended accepting a contribution despite mismatched IP and billing information, a foreign credit card, an unusual email domain, and a browser fingerprint connected to previously rejected donors.

In another case, employees said a series of small donations to former Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign made with prepaid cards were “good to accept” despite an analyst flagging the pattern as unusual.

The committees began seeking additional records after an April 2026 New York Times report cited internal documents ActBlue had not previously provided. The committees contend that ActBlue has continued withholding records.

“It’s illegal for foreigners to donate to U.S. elections,” U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in a post on X on Thursday. “So why’d ActBlue tell its fraud prevention analysts to ignore red flags about donations with foreign indicators?”

An earlier report in 2025 on ActBlue released by the committees contended that the fundraising platform weakened its fraud-prevention standards twice in 2024 for a “more lenient approach” to fraud prevention by doing fewer manual reviews.

ActBlue dismissed the committees’ findings as a partisan attack and said Republicans were continuing their investigation despite an independent forensic analysis that undermined the GOP’s allegations.

“There’s nothing to see here,” ActBlue said in a statement it released to The Epoch Times.

The fundraising platform accused Republicans of staging “another political stunt” before leaving Washington early to campaign. It said the investigation was not intended to establish facts or produce legislation but was part of a coordinated effort to silence organizations that Republicans consider obstacles to their political agenda.

According to ActBlue, 99.99 percent of the nearly $990 million donated in 2023 came from people who provided a U.S. address or passport number. Of the remaining 0.01 percent, ActBlue said the vast majority of donors supplied a passport number or domestic address with another contribution.

ActBlue said the findings demonstrate that its safeguards are working.