President Donald Trump will sign an executive order or memorandum Thursday aimed at ActBlue, the leading Democratic fundraising platform, a senior White House official told NBC News.
The source said the action is related to how the platform verifies and reports its donors and users.
Politico was the first to report on the move.
ActBlue is the primary fundraising tool for Democratic candidates and, in many cases, the default donation option on Democratic campaign websites. It is widely considered one of the pillars of the party’s digital ecosystem.
The platform works as a conduit, facilitating individual donations for campaigns and nonprofits and taking a 3.95% processing fee on most donations.
Megan Hughes, a spokesperson for Act Blue, said the organization “strictly abides by all federal and state laws governing its activities.”
“ActBlue plays a vital role in enabling all Americans to participate in our democracy and the organization strictly abides by all federal and state laws governing its activities,” Hughes said. “We will always stand steadfast in defending the rights of all Americans to participate in our democracy and ActBlue will continue its mission undeterred and uninterrupted, providing a safe, secure fundraising platform for the millions of grassroots donors who rely on us.”
A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In early April, the heads of three Republican-led House committees released a report detailing what they characterized as “illegal activity” on ActBlue and accused the platform of failing to take action against alleged fraud.
“ActBlue’s internal turmoil, lack of a functioning legal team, possible retaliatory actions, and failure to take fraud seriously raise new questions about the platform’s ability to deter fraud and comply with federal election law,” the three GOP lawmakers said in a joint statement accompanying the report.
Meanwhile, Trump ally Elon Musk has repeatedly blasted ActBlue on his social media platform, X. In a post on March 8, for example, Musk appeared to suggest that “ActBlue-funded groups” were behind the recent wave of nationwide protests against his electric car company, Tesla.
Bridget Bowman and Alexandra Marquez contributed.