福克斯新闻独家：在一份爆炸性报告引发外界对左翼候选人竞选活动是否收取外国资金的质疑后，众议院共和党人对民主党主要筹款平台的调查正在升温。
FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans' investigation into Democrats' main fundraising platform is heating up on the heels of an explosive report that raised questions about whether left-wing candidates' campaigns were raking in foreign cash.
福克斯数字新闻获悉，众议院共和党主要委员会主席已传唤ActBlue律师罗纳德·马肯（Ronald Machen），定于10月9日前的某个时间进行闭门问询。周一早晨发送给马肯的一封信函指出，他此前向调查人员披露的信息似乎与其他已收集的数据相矛盾，特别是关于ActBlue为确保捐赠者为美国公民而实施的验证标准。
Top House GOP committee chairs are summoning ActBlue attorney Ronald Machen for a closed-door interview sometime before Oct. 9, Fox News Digital has learned. A letter sent to Machen Monday morning stated that information he previously disclosed to investigators appears to contradict other data that has been collected, specifically on ActBlue's verification standards for making sure a donor is a U.S. citizen.
信函称：“2026年9月11日，您向众议院行政委员会、司法委员会以及监督与政府改革委员会作了简报，内容涉及ActBlue首席执行官雷吉娜·华莱士-琼斯（Regina Wallace-Jones）此前就ActBlue的捐赠者及护照收集流程向国会所作陈述的准确性。”
"On September 11, 2026, you provided a briefing to the House Administration, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform Committees regarding the accuracy of ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones’s prior statements to Congress about ActBlue’s donor and passport collection processes," the letter said.
“您的审查似乎不过是对ActBlue不当行为以及华莱士-琼斯女士向众议院行政委员会所作虚假陈述的事后粉饰。”另一则标题为“另一ActBlue高管在众议院调查涉嫌外国捐款时援引第五修正案拒绝作证”。该信函由众议院司法委员会主席、威斯康星州共和党人吉姆·乔丹（Jim Jordan）、众议院行政委员会主席、威斯康星州共和党人布莱恩·斯泰尔（Bryan Steil）以及众议院监督委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党人詹姆斯·科默（James Comer）发出，他们正领导针对ActBlue的调查小组。
"Your review appears to be nothing more than an after-the-fact sugarcoating of ActBlue’s misconduct and Ms. Wallace-Jones’s misrepresentations to the House Administration Committee." ANOTHER ACTBLUE LEADER PLEADS FIFTH AS HOUSE INVESTIGATES ALLEGED FOREIGN DONATIONS The letter was sent by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Wis., Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., who lead the panels probing ActBlue.
另一则标题为“ActBlue联合创始人闭门接受众议院共和党人质询时援引第五修正案”。ActBlue是一个庞大的竞选筹款平台，被纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）、密歇根州参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）以及众议院和参议院的民主党领袖等人使用。
ACTBLUE CO-FOUNDER PLEADS FIFTH AMENDMENT IN CLOSED-DOOR HOUSE GOP GRILLING ActBlue is a massive platform for campaigns to raise money that's used by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, among others.
共和党议员长期以来一直指责该公司对捐赠者的核查标准过于宽松，ActBlue则表示自共和党调查开始以来已积极改进。但本月早些时候发布的一份新报告——最先由福克斯新闻数字频道报道——似乎显示，员工在一些捐款来源存疑的情况下仍为其开了绿灯。
Republican lawmakers have long accused the company of having lax verification standards for donors, something ActBlue has said it actively improved since the start of the GOP's probe. 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.
极左政客仍在使用ActBlue，与此同时一名88岁老人否认向这个筹款巨头捐赠了近15万美元。共和党人最担心的问题之一是ActBlue的护照号码验证。根据该报告，该字段只要求填写与美国护照号码字符数相符的内容，而非有效的护照代码，捐款就能被接受。
FAR-LEFT POLITICIANS STILL USING ACTBLUE AS 88-YEAR-OLD DISPUTES DONATING NEARLY $150,000 TO FUNDRAISING GIANT Chief among the GOP's concerns is ActBlue's passport number verification. According to the report, the field only requires the correct number of characters for a U.S. passport number rather than a valid code for a donation to be accepted.
周一的信函还提到，2024年“ActBlue时任外部法律顾问、前拜登白宫法律顾问达娜·雷穆斯进行的同期审查”据称发现，“ActBlue为民主党竞选和事业筹集的部分资金存在重大风险，可能属于外国公民的不当捐款。”信函称，雷穆斯的审查还发现，“护照检查并非总是进行”，而且当捐款通过Apple Pay或PayPal等第三方支付平台完成时，“从未进行过”护照检查。
The Monday letter also points to a 2024 "contemporaneous review by ActBlue’s then-outside counsel, former Biden White House Counsel Dana Remus" which allegedly found "'a substantial risk that some of the funds' raised for Democrat campaigns and causes by ActBlue 'were impermissible contributions from foreign nationals.'" Remus' review further found that "passport checks did not always happen" and were "never conducted" when donations were made using third-party fiscal platforms like Apple Pay or PayPal, the letter said.
共和党主席们表示，梅琴此前向国会的表态“承认，你的‘取证’审查发现ActBlue处理并接受了带有外国标记的捐款，尽管ActBlue未能识别出捐赠者的‘护照号码’或‘其他资格证明’。”
The Republican chairs said Machen's prior comments to Congress "conceded that your 'forensic' review found that ActBlue processed and accepted donations with foreign indicators even though ActBlue failed to identify a 'passport number' or 'other indicia of eligibility' for the donor.
众议院民主党人猛烈抨击共和党调查外国捐款的努力，并就其动机抛出惊人说法。信函称：“尽管如此，你仍为华莱士-琼斯女士向国会所作的陈述辩护，声称ActBlue的合规和审查政策‘已尽可能接近百分之百’。”
HOUSE DEM LASHES OUT AT GOP EFFORTS TO PROBE FOREIGN DONATIONS WITH STUNNING CLAIM ON MOTIVE "Nonetheless, you defended Ms. Wallace-Jones’s representations to Congress by arguing that ActBlue’s compliance and vetting policy was 'as close to 100 percent as it could be,'" the letter said.
提交给委员会的文件反驳了你的说法。这些文件表明：如果捐赠者没有美国护照或美国地址，ActBlue的员工仍有权选择其他方式来核实捐赠者的国籍。这意味着ActBlue的员工可以在捐赠者的ActBlue账户中的“护照号码”字段中填写占位符（例如“ACTBLUEXX”），从而允许该捐赠者继续进行捐款，而无需提供美国护照号码。
"Documents produced to the Committees undercut your assertion. These documents demonstrate that if a donor did not have a U.S. passport or a U.S. address, an ActBlue employee retained the ability to determine an 'alternative method of verifying the [donor’s] citizenship.' This means an ActBlue employee could put 'a placeholder,' including 'ACTBLUEXX,' 'in the passport number field of [the donor’s] ActBlue account.' The placeholder allows ActBlue to accept all subsequent contributions from the donor without requiring a U.S. passport number." ACTBLUE SCRUTINY FUELS NEW GOP BILLS TO TIGHTEN ELECTION DONATION RULES The letter said Machen's review was also limited to 2023, arguing it left out potentially valuable information about 2024.
这封信指出，Machen的审查仅限于2023年的情况，因此遗漏了可能与2024年相关的关键信息。因此，该审查并不能全面反映ActBlue在2024年选举周期中的外国捐赠审核及与捐赠者沟通的实际情况。事实上，提交给委员会的文件显示ActBlue在2024年曾两次放宽了其审核标准——但这些信息并未被Machen的审查所涵盖。
"As such, the review did not accurately represent the totality of ActBlue’s foreign donation vetting and donor outreach practices during the 2024 election cycle. In fact, documents produced to the Committees show that ActBlue relaxed its vetting practices twice in 2024—data that your narrow 'forensic' review did not capture," the letter said.
ActBlue还起诉了德克萨斯州总检察长Ken Paxton，指控其出于政治目的对ActBlue进行报复（尤其是针对民主党的筹款活动）。ActBlue称Paxton在质疑Remus的分析结果时并未详细说明自己是如何得出自己的结论的。
ACTBLUE SUES TEXAS AG KEN PAXTON, ALLEGING POLITICAL RETALIATION OVER DEMOCRATS' FUNDRAISING It also charged that he disputed Remus' analysis without going into detail on how he established his own findings.
ActBlue一直否认有任何不当行为，并在发给Fox News Digital的声明中驳斥了共和党方面的最新指控。
ActBlue has consistently denied any wrongdoing and dismissed Republicans' most recent findings in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“这里没有任何值得关注的内容。在我们公布了第三方法医分析的结果后，这些结果彻底推翻了共和党人对 ActBlue 所提出的关键指控，但他们却拒绝继续讨论这个问题，” ActBlue 表示。“相反，他们又在策划另一场政治噱头，然后提前几周离开这座城市去参加竞选活动。这场针对 ActBlue 的联合行动其实与事实无关，也与立法无关；其目的仅仅是共和党人试图压制那些他们认为会威胁自己议程的组织。” 邀请某人参加闭门采访并不等同于传票——传票是一种具有法律约束力的正式命令。
"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," ActBlue said. "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." A closed-door interview summons is not the same as a subpoena, which is a legally binding order.