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The "$100 Billion" is a bit misleading. Quite a bit of it extends substantially into the future / gets slow walked. I'm not sure what portion of it will have been delivered by the 1 year anniversary of this war, but, it's a lot less than $100 Billion.

So, we are not talking about $100 Billion per year.

Well, at least not yet.

Also... While there's no way to put an exact $$ figure on it, very little of what we have sent in the way of arms is our best or recent "stuff". Take those tanks for example. We have at least 3500 M1 / M1A1 tanks mothballed. We might eventually sell some, but likely most will end up scrapped or used in a WWIII but-somehow-stays-conventional scenario against Russia. (This assumes we are not stupid enough to try to invade mainland China!) They will be replaced by the Abrams X or something even more advanced...

So, what is an old M1A1 really worth? Half of its original cost and adjust for inflation? I doubt that's the figure that goes into a proud US announcement of another aid package to Ukraine.