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Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:27 AM Mar 27

'Something stinks': Elon Musk, congressional Republicans target Democrats' main fundraising machine

(CNN) ActBlue, a fundraising juggernaut for liberal candidates and causes, is facing stepped-up scrutiny and criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill and allies of President Donald Trump – as the GOP flexes its new power in Washington and targets one of the key pillars of the Democratic Party’s financial infrastructure.

Three Republicans in Congress – including the chairmen of the House Oversight and Administration panels – are urging Trump’s Treasury Department to share with lawmakers reports of suspicious financial transactions related to ActBlue. Other GOP lawmakers are demanding probes by Treasury and the FBI into whether the fundraising platform has helped organizations engaged in terrorism or violated federal campaign finance laws.

And billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk – who is overseeing the administration’s controversial effort to rapidly shrink the federal government – has criticized ActBlue, seeking to tie it to protests and acts of vandalism against his electric-vehicle company Tesla. He has argued, without evidence to substantiate his claims, that some prominent Democrats – including one who died in 2019 – were funding ActBlue and the protests.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/elon-musk-republicans-target-actblue/index.html

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'Something stinks': Elon Musk, congressional Republicans target Democrats' main fundraising machine (Original Post) Dulcinea Mar 27 OP
GQP are trying to shut the Democratic Party down................. Lovie777 Mar 27 #1
Of course Musk stinks. He is always with the poo poo king. GreenWave Mar 27 #2
Does Elon have a home of his owners? He just squatting in our federal government Walleye Mar 27 #3
I hope this wakes every Dem up to the absolute war they are in, against these GOP ratfuckers LymphocyteLover Mar 27 #4
Yes, there's a very unpleasant musky smell. tanyev Mar 27 #5
Kick SheltieLover Mar 27 #6
ActBlue is a great tool for Democrats and so Musk wants to attack it LetMyPeopleVote Mar 27 #7
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