The chairman of the influential House Administration Committee has shifted his investigation to focus on whether foreigners might be laundering money into the 2024 election, as reported by Just the News.

Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) stated that his committee has identified individuals who assert they did not make the donations listed under their names in Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports filed by Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue. His committee, which handles election integrity issues, has “activated a full investigation.”

“My concern is that individuals are outside the jurisdiction in the United States who may be engaged in this,” Steil told the “Just the News, No Noise” television show. “We need to make sure that we’re avoiding, in particular, foreign interference in American elections in a period of time when the Biden administration and radical Democrats are happy to do the opposite.”

The Democratic Party has a history of scandals involving illegal foreign donations. During Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, the party was implicated in accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from suspect or “straw donors” reimbursed by foreigners linked to China, leading to one of the biggest scandals of the past fifty years. Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign faced scrutiny for similar issues when an Indian-American fundraiser admitted to channeling straw donations to her campaign. In recent weeks, Congress and the attorneys general of Texas, Missouri, and Virginia have launched investigations into ActBlue following multiple reports of individuals claiming they did not make the contributions attributed to them.

ActBlue, a prominent digital fundraising platform for the Democrats, reported raising $493 million in donations in July alone. The organization, known for its focus on small-dollar donors, did not respond to a comment request from Just the News. ActBlue has consistently dismissed allegations against it as “dubious” and has promised to cooperate with investigations to clear its name.

Last week, Steil wrote to the Federal Election Commission requesting the implementation of emergency rules to strengthen donor verification and prevent fraud by anonymous donors who use others’ names to make contributions.

“Following widespread allegations of fraudulent donations being reported to the FEC by ActBlue, one of the largest fundraising platforms in the country, this emergency rule-making is necessary to reassure the American people that ActBlue is taking the necessary steps to protect its donors,” Steil told the FEC.