DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Roughly one-third of the funds spent by The Lincoln Project, a political action committee founded by former Republican political consultants with the aim of stopping former President Donald Trump, this election cycle has gone to firms controlled by its senior operatives, Federal Election Commission records show.
The Lincoln Project has spent $12.8 million since January 2023, and just over $4 million of that has gone to firms owned by members of its leadership, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of FEC records. Fox Business in 2021 reported that more than half of the $90 million The Lincoln Project had raised for the 2020 election was paid out to firms owned by its leaders.
Of The Lincoln Project’s total spending this election cycle, about 31% has gone toward various types of consulting, roughly 16% has gone toward…
