SALEM, Ore. — Oregon and 21 other states succeeded Friday in winning a court order halting the Trump administration from seizing information on recipients of federal food assistance distributed by the states.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Agriculture demanded that states hand over information on millions of people receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. That demand applies to every recipient in the program since 2020.

The data includes home addresses, social security numbers, recent locations, immigration status and other details. If shared across federal agencies — and the Trump administration has been fairly open about its efforts to consolidate personal data held by different agencies — it would likely use

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