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ActBlue在致众议院共和党调查人员的一封信中表示，该平台正在更新其护照核验标准
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【福克斯新闻独家报道】 据福克斯新闻数字频道获得的最新信件显示，美国民主党最大的竞选筹款平台ActBlue称，在众议院共和党调查人员指控其可能为美国竞选活动接收外国捐款数天后，该平台已加强了捐赠者核验标准。
ActBlue的律师周一致信众议院，宣布将启动一项新的“护照核验计划”，作为其“对海外捐赠者处理的捐款进行安全保障持续投入”的一部分。
多年来，众议院共和党一直指责ActBlue的核验标准不足以剔除非法竞选捐款。
该平台长期以来被众多民主党人用于为其政治竞选筹集资金，包括参众两院的民主党领袖。不过ActBlue表示，该平台已于2025年暂停了海外美国人的捐款。
共和党锁定被指协助民主党筹款巨头隐藏外国资金的关键人物
2026年6月10日，ActBlue首席执行官里贾纳·华莱士-琼斯在华盛顿特区众议院行政委员会举行的“防止欺诈性捐款：透明度、核验与问责”听证会上准备作证。华莱士-琼斯在质询中援引了第五修正案权利。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
ActBlue在回应福克斯新闻数字频道的问询以及致众议院调查人员的函件中，一直否认存在不当行为。包括高管和创始人在内的该公司10名高层人士，在共和党主导的委员会举行的公开和非公开约谈中，均援引第五修正案拒绝回答问题。
又一名ActBlue高管援引第五修正案，众议院调查所谓外国捐款
但本月早些时候发布的一份由福克斯新闻数字频道率先报道的新报告似乎显示，尽管部分捐款来源存疑，公司员工仍批准了这些捐款。
共和党最主要的担忧集中在ActBlue的护照号码核验机制上。根据该报告，当时系统仅要求输入的美国护照号码符合字符数量要求，而非有效代码，即可接受捐款。
共和党议员警告ActBlue“露馅”，外国资金调查引发第五修正案援引潮
但周一的信件称，ActBlue的新计划“新增了基于护照的身份核验，作为ActBlue多层欺诈和外国捐款防范机制的进一步强化”。
信件中写道：“借此，居住海外的美国公民——他们自2025年以来一直无法在ActBlue平台上捐款——将能够恢复参与政治进程，为他们选择的候选人和事业提供支持。新计划将采用最先进的技术，允许符合条件的海外美国公民使用有效的美国护照核验身份。这反映了ActBlue在工程方面的大量投入，以确保其在恢复处理海外地址捐款时，合规系统能够经得起审查。”
众议院行政委员会主席、威斯康星州共和党众议员布莱恩·斯泰尔称，这相当于一种承认。
2026年6月10日，众议院行政委员会主席、威斯康星州共和党众议员布莱恩·斯泰尔抵达朗沃思大厦参加题为“防止欺诈性捐款：透明度、核验与问责”的听证会。ActBlue首席执行官里贾纳·华莱士-琼斯作为证人，援引了她的第五修正案权利。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
斯泰尔在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示：“这项新护照核验计划的实施，恰恰印证了我们一直以来的说法：ActBlue未能核验海外捐款者的公民身份。这是不可接受的。这项新政策本应在平台上线第一天就落实。目前仍有太多悬而未决的问题，包括通过ActBlue平台流入的数十亿美元资金中，有多少比例来自非法外国来源。乔丹主席、科默主席和我将继续为美国民众寻求答案。”
对ActBlue的审查推动共和党推出新法案，收紧选举捐款规则
此次调查由斯泰尔所在的委员会、众议院司法委员会主席、俄亥俄州共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹，以及众议院监督委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党众议员詹姆斯·科默共同牵头。
乔丹的发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“这一行动证实，该平台的防欺诈措施并未像ActBlue首席执行官里贾纳·华莱士-琼斯向国会承诺的那样完善。我们将继续要求得到答案。”
共和党早前的报告援引了华莱士-琼斯致斯泰尔的一封信，信中称，地址在美国境外的人士在该平台捐款时，需提供护照号码进行核验。
2018年11月13日，员工在马萨诸塞州萨默维尔的ActBlue办公室工作。ActBlue是一家民主党筹款平台，拥有98名员工。（杰西卡·里纳尔/《波士顿环球报》通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
但共和党报告指控称，当时的核验“仅确保输入的护照号码符合特定字符数要求，而非确认其为有效的美国护照号码”，这使得该步骤实质上毫无意义。
ActBlue当时回应福克斯新闻数字频道的报道称：“这里没什么好看的。在我们发布第三方法医分析结果，完全推翻了他们针对ActBlue的核心主张后，共和党人仍不肯善罢甘休。”
“相反，他们在提前数周离城竞选之际，又在策划一场政治闹剧。这场针对ActBlue的协同运动无关事实，也无关立法，而是共和党为了打压他们认为威胁其议程的组织，”该平台表示。
ActBlue的发言人在被置评请求时，向福克斯新闻数字频道提供了一篇宣布此次更新的博客文章。
声明中称：“2025年，在特朗普总统及其盟友发起前所未有的攻击之际，本组织采取了主动措施，暂时暂停了所有来自美国境外的捐款。ActBlue现在进一步加强了核验流程，允许符合条件、持有美国护照且身处海外的美国人通过本平台参与捐款，同时保持捐赠者、竞选团队和公众期望的严格安全与合规标准。”
声明还称，ActBlue“已准确地”向国会描述了其审核流程。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，负责报道众议院事务。此前曾在《每日邮报》和CBS新闻发表报道。
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Dem fundraising giant makes damning admission as GOP probes foreign donation allegations
October 6, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
ActBlue said it was updating its passport verification standards in a letter to House GOP investigators
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FIRST ON FOX:Democrats’ largest campaign fundraising platform says it has strengthened its donor verification standards days after House GOP investigators accused it of potentially taking in foreign donations for U.S. campaigns, according to a new letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
Attorneys for ActBlue sent a letter to the House of Representatives on Monday announcing it is launching a new “passport verification program” as part of its “ongoing investment in the security of contributions processed from donors located abroad.”
House Republicans have for years accused ActBlue of having insufficient verification standards for weeding out illegitimate campaign donations.
The platform has long been used by a myriad of Democrats to raise money for their political campaigns, including Democratic leaders in the House and Senate. ActBlue said it paused donations from Americans abroad in 2025, however.
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ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones prepares to testify before the House Administration Committee’s hearing on “Preventing Fraudulent Donations: Transparency, Verification, and Accountability” in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2026. Wallace-Jones invoked the Fifth Amendment during questioning.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
ActBlue has consistently denied wrongdoing in responses to Fox News Digital and communications to House investigators. Ten top figures within the company, including executives and founders, have pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions in both public and private sitdowns with GOP-led committees.
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But a new report released earlier this month, first reported by Fox News Digital, appears to show employees green-lighting donations despite some questions about where they came from.
Chief among the GOP’s concerns is ActBlue’s passport number verification. According to the report, the field only required the correct number of characters for a U.S. passport number rather than a valid code for a donation to be accepted.
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But the Monday letter said ActBlue’s new program “adds passport-based identity verification as a further enhancement to ActBlue’s multi-layered approach to fraud and foreign-contribution prevention.”
“In doing so, it also enables U.S. citizens located abroad—who have been unable to contribute on the ActBlue platform since 2025—to resume participating in the political process by supporting the candidates and causes of their choice,” the letter said. “The new program uses the best available technology to allow eligible donors located abroad to verify their identity using a valid U.S. passport. It reflects substantial engineering investments by ActBlue to ensure that, as it resumes processing contributions from foreign addresses, its compliance systems can withstand scrutiny.”
Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said it amounted to a confession.
Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., arrives for the House Administration Committee hearing titled “Preventing Fraudulent Donations: Transparency, Verification, and Accountability,” in Longworth building on Wednesday, June 10, 2026. The witness, Regina Wallace-Jones, CEO of ActBlue, invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“This decision to implement a NEW passport verification program only confirms what we’ve been saying: ActBlue failed to verify the citizenship of individuals who made donations from abroad. That’s unacceptable,” Steil told Fox News Digital. “This new policy should have been in place on day one. Right now, far too many questions remain unanswered, including what percentage of the billions of dollars that have flowed through ActBlue came from illegal foreign sources. Chairman Jordan, Chairman Comer, and I will continue to seek answers for the American people.”
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The probe is being co-led by his panel as well as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.
A spokesperson for Jordan told Fox News Digital, “This action confirms that the platform’s fraud prevention measures were not as robust as [ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones] told Congress. We will continue to demand answers.”
The GOP’s earlier report cited a letter by Wallace-Jones to Steil, which maintained that donations on the platform made by people with addresses outside the U.S. required a passport number for verification.
Employees work at ActBlue in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Nov. 13, 2018. ActBlue is a Democratic fundraising platform with 98 employees.(Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
But the Republicans’ report alleged that the verification “only ensures that the entered passport number contains a certain number of characters, not that it is a valid U.S. passport number,” rendering it an essentially meaningless step.
ActBlue told Fox News Digital in response to the report at the time, “There’s nothing to see here. After we released findings of a third-party forensic analysis that completely undermined a central claim that they have made against ActBlue, Republicans are refusing to move on.”
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“Instead, they are orchestrating another political stunt before rushing out of town weeks early to go campaign. This coordinated campaign against ActBlue isn’t about the facts, or legislating, it’s about Republicans’ efforts to silence organizations they believe threaten their agenda,” the platform said.
A spokesperson for ActBlue pointed Fox News Digital to a blog post announcing the update when reached for comment.
“In 2025, amid unprecedented attacks from President Trump and his allies, our organization took the proactive step of temporarily suspending all contributions from outside the United States,” the statement said. “ActBlue has now further enhanced its verification process to allow eligible Americans with a U.S. Passport who are located abroad to participate through the platform while maintaining the robust security and compliance standards that donors, campaign, and the public expect.”
It also said ActBlue “accurately described” its vetting process to Congress.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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