Key House committee schedules hearing with embattled ActBlue CEO: ‘Needs to come clean’

Regina Wallace-Jones of Palo Alto soaks up the first evening of the DNC Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug.19, 2024.(Yalonda M.James/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

“The CEO of ActBlue needs to come clean, provide the information toCongressthat we’ve requested,” House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis.“We know that they had a massive staff exodus following the 2024 elections as President Trump came into office.We know that ActBlue does not have all the security protocols that they need to have in place.And I think it’s incumbent for all of us to get to the bottom of this and get the right answer.”

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In the letter to Wallace-Jones inviting her to testify, Steil wrote, “Based upon recent reporting, it appears that ActBlue’s production to the committee’s July 2025 subpoena was deliberately incomplete.” He continued to say “there are outstanding questions” on whether ActBlue has sufficiently tightened its fraud protections.

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ActBlue’s counsel responded to the House Administration Committee Thursday in a letter attacking the committee for running a “politically motivated investigation.” The letter also underscored the company’s previous cooperation with the committee, including producing thousands of requested documents.But it did not say whether Wallace-Jones would testify. 

“While ActBlue remains committed to providing relevant information, it is deeply concerned that this latest action constitutes a continued partisan attack on a political opponent at a pivotal moment in the electoral cycle,” ActBlue lawyer Vincent Cohen wrote.“This concern is compounded by the Committees’ conspicuous failure to scrutinize the widely reported deficiencies in the donor verification practices of WinRed, ActBlue’s Republican fundraising counterpart that members of the committee rely on for their own campaigns.” 

The House Administration Committee’s letter to ActBlue gave it until Thursday, April 30 to confirm Wallace-Jones would appear in the hearing.

The House Administration Committeehas been investigating ActBlue dating back to 2023, initially probing the platform’s failure to use credit card verification value (CVV) whenaccepting contributions.This, however, is the first time its CEO has been invited to testify before Congress.The invitation from the committee is not mandatory, but if Wallace-Jones refuses to appear, it could lead the committee to subpoena her in the future. 

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Currently, the hearing with Wallace-Jones is scheduled for May 19 at 10 a.m.

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House Judiciary Committee ChairmanJim Jordan, R-Ohio, raised the alarm about The New York Times’ reporting in an interview with Liz Macdonald on “Evening Edit” Monday.

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Rep.Jim Jordan leaves a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S.Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Dec.10, 2024.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.via Getty Images)

“Their lawyer says, ‘Hey, that response you gave, Miss Wallace-Jones, back in ’23, it looks like you weren’t clear.You weren’t honest and you may have misrepresented the facts,'” Jordan said.“That’s a nice way of saying you lied.And again, we didn’t say that.Their own lawyer at Covington &Burling said that… When you see all this smoke, there’s probably a fire.” 

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� Kevin Gora and Nicholas Barry contributed to this report. 

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