A $200 billion funding request from the Trump administration for the war in Iran is higher than expected, Sen. Susan Collins said.

Collins, a Republican from Maine who chairs the Senate appropriations committee, told reporters in Washington, D.C., that the request made by the Pentagon to fund the ongoing conflict “is considerably higher than I would have guessed.”

But she stressed that she doesn’t yet have the full details of the request.

“I don’t know how it’s broken down,” Collins continued, according to a spokesperson who shared the senator’s remarks with the Press Herald Thursday. “I don’t know what’s going to be in the supplemental, and if it’s just for (the Department of Defense) or if there’s money in there for agricultural assistance or to cover the Pell grant shortfall, maybe it’s a broader supplemental, I just don’t know.”

The department has asked the White House to approve $200 billion in funding to continue operations that started in February with joint military strikes by the U.S. and Israel, according to reports in The Washington Post and The New York Times, both of which cited unnamed officials.

Phoebe Keller, communications director for the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Thursday afternoon that the committee has not yet received the funding request.

It remains unclear exactly how much money the White House may ask for.

“Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in the Times. “As far as the $200 billion, I think that number could move.”

In fiscal year 2025, the Department of Defense’s annual budget request was $849.8 billion. Congress appropriated $174.2 billion for the war in Ukraine through five supplemental appropriation acts enacted between fiscal years 2022 and 2024, according to Keller.