Far left activists who regularly corner lawmakers with cameras and hostile questions discovered on Veterans Day that they were far less enthusiastic when reporters filmed them. Members of CodePink and allied organizations repeatedly blocked a Fox News Digital camera, refused questions and attacked the reporter covering their Capitol Hill lobbying effort.

Fox News Digital followed activists for six hours Wednesday as they moved through Congress during an event called the “Taxpayer Uprising.” Participants included members of CodePink, BreakThrough News, the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and other groups linked to Neville Roy Singham’s funding network.

The day began before 10 a.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building, where activists entered a breakfast gathering of the U.S. House Bagel Caucus. At 9:59 a.m., they surrounded Rep. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat, and aimed their cameras at him.

CodePink cofounder Medea Benjamin, wearing a shirt declaring “NO WAR ON IRAN,” questioned Goldman about Section 219 of the National Defense Authorization Act. She described the provision as a “merging” of the American and Israeli militaries, which Goldman rejected.

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“It is not a merging of the militaries,” Goldman said. “It is a collaboration on technology that we depend on Israel for, and they depend on us for, and it is for our own national security.”

After Goldman called conditions in Gaza “absolutely horrific” and said he wished Hamas would permit aid that Israel was trying to send, activists groaned. CodePink activist Tighe Barry accused him of telling a “horrific lie,” while Goldman thanked the group for talking and walked away.

The activists then gathered in the Rayburn cafeteria, where organizers had arranged numbered lobbying tables and displayed pink “TAXPAYER UPRISING” and “WAR IS NOT GREEN” signs. Within minutes, volunteers began ordering the reporter away and attempting to obstruct the camera.

One activist covered the lens with a Palestinian keffiyeh, while another placed a hand over it. A pink backpack decorated with watermelons was also held before the camera, and a young man identified by a name tag reading “Finn” repeatedly positioned himself in its path.

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CodePink media contact Melissa Garriga refused to answer questions and boasted that she ignored emailed requests for comment from Fox News Digital. Asked about Singham’s funding of CodePink, she swept her hand across the lens and said, “I don't have to respond to you.”

At 10:14 a.m., Garriga covered the camera and said, “Just buzz off.” The activist identified as Finn then used a gray jacket, canvas tote bag and keffiyeh to obscure the lens, while another woman waved her hands in front of it.

Shortly after 10:20 a.m., CodePink cofounders Jodie Evans and Benjamin began the program. Benjamin encouraged participants to approach lawmakers wherever they encountered them, telling the activists, “Remember, they work for us. They're not better than us. They are public servants.”

Evans married Singham in 2017, when he sold Thoughtworks for an estimated $785 million. The source investigation reported that he used proceeds from the sale to direct $285 million into a network of nonprofits described as supporting China and communism.

Singham has denied acting at the direction of the Chinese government. When asked whether her husband would agree to an interview, Evans was described as the only member of the group who responded professionally, smiling and saying, “No, he's shy.”

BreakThrough News host Rania Khalek also refused questions about Singham’s funding. She filmed the reporter, accused Fox News Digital of harassment and later called the reporter a “genocide apologist,” while another activist declared the reporter a disgrace to journalism.

By 10:35 a.m., activists reached the office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, where a sign read “OFFICE CLEARED.” Benjamin later recorded a video outside the office, and CodePink posted it overnight with the claim, “We just packed the office of Hakeem Jeffries.”

At 3:28 p.m., House Majority Leader Steve Scalise spoke to Fox News Digital on the Capitol steps as activists stood behind police barricades. “Some people like yelling and screaming and making a lot of noise,” Scalise said, adding that funding sources reveal much about groups that “hate America.”

IRS filings cited in the investigation show Singham gave $1.098 million to BreakThrough’s BT Media Inc., $1.33 million to CodePink and $22.44 million to the People’s Forum. CodePink listed 56 organizations participating in the Taxpayer Uprising, with estimated combined annual revenues of $40 million.

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