Wilkinson, capped 183 times by Canada but who has a Welsh mother, has spoken about her desire to fully embrace her heritage and she did an impressive job of singing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau before kick-off.

But Congress hasn’t yet passed the fiscal year 2024 budget, which Biden submitted a year ago, even though FY 2024 has now been going on for five months.

Instead, it passed a continuing resolution, which allowed the Pentagon, as an interim gesture, to keep spending the same sum that it had been given the year before—for FY 2023.

Congress is likely to do the same thing in lieu of committing serious work to the FY 2025 bill.

But it’s not a line item in the FY 2025 budget; there’s no room for it.