ActBlue C.E.O. Agrees to Testify Before Congress About Foreign Donor Vetting
The chief executive of the liberal fund-raising platform ActBlue has agreed to House Republicans’ request for her testimony next month to answer questions about how the group vets overseas donors, according to Walt Smoloski, a spokesman for the House Administration Committee.
Regina Wallace-Jones, the ActBlue chief executive, is expected to appear before the committee on June 10. She has not spoken about ActBlue’s vetting process, in interviews or in public, since The New York Times revealed in April that her group’s own lawyers warned that she may have misled House Republican investigators in her previous responses to their questions.
After the Times article about the correspondence between ActBlue and its lawyers, the House Administration Committee asked Ms. Wallace-Jones to answer questions in person. ActBlue and the committee have exchanged formal letters about ActBlue’s vetting processes since the House committee, which is led by Representative Bryan Steil, a Wisconsin Republican, began investigating the platform in 2023.
“Ms. Wallace-Jones allegedly misled our committee at the outset of our investigation into ActBlue’s fraud prevention standards,” Mr. Steil said. “It’s past time we set the record straight and got answers for the American people. I look forward to hearing her testify.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/us/politics/actblue-testify-congress-donors.html