ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s largest campaign fundraising platform, says it has strengthened donor verification standards after House Republican investigators accused it of potentially accepting foreign donations intended for United States political campaigns.

Attorneys for ActBlue notified the House of Representatives on Monday that the platform is launching a new “passport verification program.” The company described the move as part of its “ongoing investment in the security of contributions processed from donors located abroad.”

House Republicans have accused ActBlue for years of maintaining inadequate verification standards for identifying illegitimate campaign donations. The platform has been used by numerous Democrats, including party leaders in the House and Senate, to raise campaign money.

ActBlue said it paused donations from Americans living abroad in 2025. The new program would allow eligible Americans overseas to resume donating through the platform after verifying their identities with valid United States passports.

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The company has consistently denied wrongdoing in responses to Fox News Digital and communications with House investigators. Ten prominent ActBlue figures, including executives and founders, have invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions during public and private meetings with GOP-led committees.

ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones invoked the Fifth Amendment while appearing before the House Administration Committee on June 10, 2026. The hearing was titled “Preventing Fraudulent Donations: Transparency, Verification, and Accountability.”

A Republican report released earlier this month appeared to show ActBlue employees approving donations despite questions concerning their origins. A central concern involved the platform’s method of checking passport numbers submitted by donors located abroad.

According to the report, the passport field required only the correct number of characters for a United States passport number. It did not require a valid passport code before a donation could be accepted.

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ActBlue’s Monday letter said the 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.”

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Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil of Wisconsin called the decision a confession. “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,” Steil said.

“Chairman Jordan, Chairman Comer, and I will continue to seek answers for the American people,” Steil added. The investigation is being led by Steil’s panel, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky.

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A spokesperson for Jordan said the change contradicted previous testimony about ActBlue’s safeguards. “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 Republican report cited a letter from Wallace-Jones to Steil maintaining that donors with addresses outside the United States had to provide passport numbers. Republicans alleged the process “only ensures that the entered passport number contains a certain number of characters, not that it is a valid U.S. passport number,” making the safeguard essentially meaningless.

ActBlue rejected that assessment after the report emerged. “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.”

“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.

An ActBlue spokesperson later directed Fox News Digital to a blog post announcing the verification update. The statement said ActBlue suspended all contributions from outside the United States in 2025 amid what it called unprecedented attacks from President Trump and his allies.

ActBlue said the enhanced process would let eligible Americans abroad participate while maintaining its security and compliance standards. The company also maintained that it “accurately described” its previous vetting process to Congress.

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