Farmers are missing payments from the government meant to help them during the trade fight with China because of the government shutdown, a top official with the American Farm Bureau Federation said Monday.

Payments from the government meant to help farmers during the trade fight with China are being delayed because of the government shutdown, a top official with the American Farm Bureau Federation said Monday.

The official for the group said it is hoping the shutdown that began on Dec. 22 over a fight about President Trump's wall on the Mexican border ends soon.

“We’ve seen a pretty large impact for some producers, that’s where we saw some of the market facilitation payments that are currently delayed because of the government shutdown,” the official, Andrew Walmsley, told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."

The payments were intended to help farmers who are losing sales or money because of the U.S. trade war with China.