Exactly one week ago, the Biden Administration requested an Emergency Supplemental Appropriation to, among other things, respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The portion of that request to help Ukraine was a robust $10 billion.

Now, one measly week later, the Congress has released the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Omnibus appropriations bill that incorporates that supplemental request. But, and it’s a big but (yes, we’re 12 years old) the total to respond to Russian aggression is now $13.6 billion. Yep. That’s inflation for you.

Refer back to our write-up, linked above, to remember that the original request included the Pentagon, State Department, Justice Department, and several other federal agencies. Just the Pentagon portion of the original request was $4.8 billion.

We were able to do a deep dive into the details of the Biden Administration request because the Office of Management and Budget released the unclassified details in a 36 page document for all the world to see.  And we have the actual bill language from the Congressional draft of the FY22 Omnibus. So, we compared the two, because that’s what budget watchdogs do!

And we can report that the Pentagon portion of what the Congress has reported out, one measly week later, is now $6.5 billion. That’s a difference of roughly $1.7 billion. These totals are going up faster than the price of gas!

Here are the differences, all laid out for you in one handy chart.