donations through ftx. and most say they will donate that cash back to charity or return it or wait for federal investigators tell them what to do. and sbf gave a lot of money to a lot of people. the second largest democratic donor in the midterms. and he also gave money to a handful of republicans. most of that cash went to pacs, state parties, and the dnc. only a fraction of those millions went directly to candidates. now, for example, west virginia senator joe manchin says he will donate the $5800 he got to a food bank. and alli raffa has more, and some of those who are looking at complicating the victims of the collapse of ftx, people who lost money, when they went under. reporter: yes, these are democrats and republicans who were candidates, who actually in some cases won they re elections with the help of the campaign donations from sam bankman-fried and ftx, as these candidates now
21st happening and they re planning for the administration response. first of all, they re asking congress for an additional $3 billion in border enforcement needs and hope it comes in the spending package that is still being worked through on capitol hill. but absent that, they found some other potential measures, including what s called a trans it ban, something controversial, it comes from the steven miller play book as our colleague julie ainsley reported, which would prevent individuals from claiming asylum at the border here unless they have already been denied asylum from a third party country and there are proposals under consideration that would allow to claim for asylum from their own countries, in other words not at the u.s./mexico border which would allow them to have a more orderly process in place here. we re waiting to see what that time line will be and not any word just yet. thank you. keep us posted. still ahead, new nbc news reporting, what candidates who got cam
are distancing themselves as much as possible from those two names. as you mentioned, some of them not answering questions about what they plan to do with that money. some of them saying they re going to wait for the d.o.j. to tell them what to do. some saying they will donate it to charity. and others saying that they plan to give this money back to the people who invested in ftx, and lost collectively around $2 billion as a whole. so this is all raising some broader questions about how exactly this money would be recovered eventually, what sort of processes that would take to be able to do, as far as bankruptcy proceedings, how long that would take, and how exactly the money would get back to the people who invested in ftx, really in good faith. and lawmakers here on capitol hill are saying that this is shedding some new light on some things they ve been trying to talk about for years now. crypto has been sort of a hotly-debated and confusing topic, for lawmakers to come to a decisio