Jordan says House chairs threaten contempt for ActBlue over document dispute

Chairman Jim Jordan said House committee chairs are threatening to hold fundraising platform ActBlue in contempt of Congress unless it turns over hundreds of requested documents, accusing the group of hiding information and resisting oversight.

"No question about it. This is not a a very complicated system here. You need to have donor integrity, and you need to have funding integrity," the speaker identified in the transcript as Chairman Jim Jordan said, framing the issue as one of verification and transparency for political donations.

Jordan alleged that ActBlue "purposefully has purposefully hidden the ball here," and said the group's chief executive "pled the fifth" when asked about foreign donations. "Their CEO, when asked about foreign donations, uh she could have said, 'I don't know.' or 'Not to my knowledge.' But what did she do? She pled the fifth," he said.

He also claimed there have been "mass resignations" at ActBlue and that people who attended depositions "pled the fifth hundreds of times," which he presented as further evidence the committees are being denied documents and testimony they sought.

Jordan went on to argue that the platform has obscured how donations are processed, saying it has "clouded that operation to fund billions of dollars to far-left Democrats," a claim he offered as part of the committees' rationale for pressing for documents.

The remarks in the transcript are a description of the chairs' public position and of Jordan's allegations; the program host had introduced an upcoming interview with Chairman Jordan and framed the committees' stance as a potential contempt referral. The transcript contains no record of a formal contempt vote or other official action taken in the session represented here. The claims of specific dollar amounts, "hundreds" of documents and the allegation of billions in transfers are assertions made by the speaker in the transcript and are not independently verified in the record provided.

Next steps cited in the discussion were the chairs' threat to pursue contempt proceedings if requested documents are not produced; the transcript does not record any vote or formal contempt referral being adopted during this segment.