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The Agriculture Department faces a court order to release SNAP benefits the department refuses to fund this month with the government shut down, and the Supreme Court considers this week whether President Donald Trump has the right to impose his most sweeping tariffs.

The government shutdown heads toward a new crisis point this week with the potential lapse in SNAP benefits, and President Donald Trump is in Asia for meetings that are scheduled to include his face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Several Trump nominees of particular importance to food and agriculture policy have hearings on Capitol Hill.

In a pair of social media posts Wednesday, President Donald Trump shot back at U.S. cattle producers, who have criticized his proposal to use Argentinian beef imports to lower U.S. consumer prices.

The government shutdown needs to end before the Trump administration will move forward with emergency payments to producers who are struggling with low commodity prices, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Thursday.

Justin Sherlock and other farmers in North Dakota are just a month away from combining their soybean crop, and their biggest market, China, has yet to order a single bushel. As a result, local cash bids in Sherlock’s area was down to $9.09 a bushel on Tuesday, $1.40 below the CME Group’s November futures price. That spread, or basis, would normally be about 70 to 90 cents a bushel, 

The American Soybean Association is asking President Trump to make a trade deal with China, warning that what has long been the biggest export market for U.S. soy doesn’t have a single order in for this fall’s harvest.

Higher country-specific reciprocal tariffs that were unveiled on April 2 but postponed for 90 days to allow breathing room for negotiations are set to snap back into place on Friday. The Senate Ag Committee holds a hastily arranged hearing on Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins' sweeping plan to reorganize the department.

Senate Republicans face a critical test of their loyalty to President Donald Trump as they head toward debate on a $9.4 billion package of funding cuts to foreign assistance and public broadcasting that the White House is asking Congress to affirm. Also this week, the Trump administration could clear the way for new duties on Mexican tomatoes. 

Senate Republicans will try to put the final touches on their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill during a work week shortened by the Juneteenth holiday, while trade discussions are expected to be on the agenda as President Donald Trump and Treasury Scott Bessent attend the G7 meeting this week in the Canadian Rockies. 

House Republican leaders are trying to resolve sharp differences over the giant budget reconciliation bill after it stalled in the Budget Committee amid a clash between hardline conservatives and some Northeast moderates. The Budget Committee advanced the bill during a rare Sunday night session, but the Freedom Caucus said it would keep pushing for more spending cuts.