ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones invoked her Fifth Amendment rights Wednesday rather than answer questions before Congress about allegations that the Democratic fundraising platform illegally processed foreign donations to federal campaigns.

“On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution,” Wallace-Jones said after being asked the opening question at the House hearing.

House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) said investigators had “significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress and withheld responsive documents from a congressional subpoena.”

“All three of those actions are illegal,” Steil declared.

The committee subpoenaed Wallace-Jones after ActBlue’s legal team indicated she would not answer questions voluntarily. Republican lawmakers investigating the platform have also accused her of misleading Congress about the effectiveness of ActBlue’s fraud prevention measures.

Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY), the committee’s top Democrat, criticized the hearing as politically motivated and accused Republicans of failing to investigate similar concerns involving their party’s fundraising platform, WinRed.

In a video statement posted Wednesday, Wallace-Jones accused “President Trump and his allies” of “abusing their power to target ActBlue.”

“Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not an admission — or even an insinuation — of guilt,” she said.

“Last year, President Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, not based on facts, but dislike. Republican committee chairs wrote to Trump’s attorney general pledging to work collaboratively together,” Wallace-Jones added.

“These attacks did not start with ActBlue. And sadly, we know they are not stopping here. They are part of a much bigger trend of retaliation and retribution. It was universities. It was law firms. Then civil rights organizations.”

“We will not be intimidated.”

ActBlue, founded in 2004, has helped Democratic candidates and causes raise more than $19 billion. Nearly $2 billion of that funding went to Democrats during the 2024 election cycle, when internal records later obtained by The NY Post reported the platform had made its fraud standards “more lenient.”