Hey from CNN, I'm AfomaDK, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, October 30th.

We start with the latest developments on the government shutdowns impact on food stamp benefits.

A federal judge in Boston indicated she'll intervene on the Trump administration's decision

not to tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food aid

for tens of millions of Americans in November. While she indicated from the bench that she's likely to

issue a ruling favorable to a group of Democratic attorneys general and governors from 25 states in

Washington, D.C., who sued the Trump administration, she acknowledged that benefits will be delayed.

Today, the judge said multiple times that federal law makes it clear that when the government

is unable to pay benefits, it should reduce what it provides, not suspend them altogether.

Funding for food benefits is set to lapse on Saturday, which has led some families to depend on

food banks.

CNN spoke with a pastor who directs a food pantry just outside of Philadelphia.

Government, the local community, both those things work in partnership to make pantries work,

and having that equation is just missing. And there's no way to make up that gap by ourselves. President Trump is back in the U.S. after capping off his trip to Asia with Chinese leader

Xi Jinping.

Their first face-to-face meeting of Trump's second term took place in South Korea, where

the two leaders struck a new trade deal.

Trump said the U.S. agreed to lower the overall tariff rate on Chinese goods from 57 percent to 47.

Tariffs prompted China to stop buying U.S. soybeans in May, leaving farmers across the country sitting on billions of unsold crops.

But that's changing. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says China has agreed to buy 12 million tons of soybeans from the U.S. through January

and is committed to buying 25 million tons a year for the next three years.

Soybean farmers Scott Gaffner tells CNN the deal is an early Christmas present.

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