Lincoln Project's dollars had absent to spend subcontractors, "creating it difficult to follow the money" to distributors, and that "just about all" of the funds raised experienced gone to firms operate by the group's board users, particularly Galen's Summit Strategic Communications and Steslow's Tusk Digital. Firms run by the board users account for $50 million in expenditures of the $90 million lifted, according to a February 2021 news report.