Democratic committee leaders are asking a government agency to hand over documents related to the Republican fundraising platform WinRed, according to a new letter exclusively shared with NOTUS.
The Federal Trade Commission received more than 800 complaints against WinRed between January 2022 and June 2024, seven times as many as the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, according to a CNN investigation into the “deceptive” fundraising tactics misleading elderly Americans into donating millions to political candidates and causes.
Ranking members of the House Administration, Judiciary and Oversight committees cited the CNN report in their letter to the FTC’s chair, Andrew Ferguson.