M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about the latest pronouncement from U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for expanded House probes into ActBlue, the Democrats’ behemoth fundraising platform, amid new concerns about foreign funding in U.S. elections. 

Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of the House Administration Committee, this week announced the findings from documents the committee obtained through a subpoena of ActBlue issued days before last month’s election. The records revealed that the fundraising platform continued to accept donations using “foreign prepaid/gift cards” into July, when Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign reported record-shattering donation figures. 

“ActBlue was accepting foreign gift cards until September. This is ILLEGAL,” the speaker wrote Wednesday on his X account. The Louisiana Republican assured Steil’s committee would “continue this important investigation into ActBlue next Congress.”

“Our work here is just getting started,” Johnson added. 

Reached Wednesday by The Federalist, the speaker’s office declined to comment further. Elon Musk, who is working with Vivek Ramaswamy in leading President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to cut spending from the bloated federal government, chimed in, too. “Wow, extremely illegal,” Musk posted on X in reaction to Johnson’s post.  

Steil said the documents released through the congressional subpoena show ActBlue, as of Sept. 9, had updated its internal policies to “automatically reject donations that use foreign prepaid/gift cards, domestic gift cards, are from high-risk/sanctioned countries, and have the highest level of risk as determined,” by its “AI-powered fraud platform” Sift.

“While this is a positive step forward, there is still more work to be done to ensure our campaign finance system is fully protected from fraud and unlawful foreign interference,” the Wisconsin Republican said in a statement to The Federalist. 

Remember all of that corporate media gushing about the Harris-Walz campaign’s massive contribution hauls? The New York Times headline on Oct. 21 proclaimed, “Harris Sets Record for Biggest Fundraising Quarter Ever.”