As a leftist network of nonprofits organized protests against President Donald Trump’s extradition of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna urged a House committee Wednesday to subpoena a major donor behind the network, and the committee voted to issue the subpoena.

Luna, a Florida Republican, moved to subpoena Neville Roy Singham, who earned his fortune by founding an American IT company but now lives in Shanghai, China, and funds leftist groups rallying against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, against Israel, and for Maduro.

“I’d like to make a motion to subpoena Neville Singham, a U.S. billionaire with reported ties to the CCP that’s been funding extremist organizations, fueling division and civil unrest in this country, especially regarding the ICE riots last summer,” Luna said in a hearing about Minnesota fraud held by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Government Reform.

The committee’s ranking member, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., offered an amendment to the motion, moving to subpoena Lex Wexner—a former associate of convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein—as well.

Luna defended her motion, stating that Singham embraces “anti-American ideology” and funds “certain groups that actually sow discord in this country with no efforts to actually resolve the issues, only to get us to fight one another.”

She noted that then-Sen.........

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