The Woodstock Job Corps Center, a federal vocational and academic training program, will cease operations and lay off 117 employees starting this month, according to a notice filed in Maryland.

The Biden administration cut the budget for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps Program, temporarily closing the facility in December, along with one in another state. Officials at the time asked Congress and the incoming Trump administration for support. But within days of the new presidency, Woodstock Job Corps Center’s temporary status moved to permanent.

This came as President Donald Trump has announced a flurry of belt-tightening moves since taking office last week, including an attempt to freeze federal grants and funding and offer buyout offers to federal employees.

The Labor Department said in December that it would pause operations at the Woodstock Job Corps Center and one in Kentucky, noting in a release at the time that the Job Corps’ budget has “remained largely flat for the past several years despite rising program costs.”

The Woodstock layoffs would take effect by April 1, according to the notice to the Maryland Department of Labor filed this week.

The Woodstock Job Corps Center declined to comment.

Labor officials declined to comment on Thursday. In its December release, the department said it would provide assistance to affected staff and transfer students to nearby centers.

Job Corps was established through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, when youth unemployment was at an all-time high. In the 60 years since, the free federal program has served more than 3 million young people across 120 centers nationwide.

The Woodstock Job Corps Center’s 64-acre campus, near Baltimore County’s border with Howard County, had 428 students training for careers in welding, health care, construction, business and other vocations in 2022.

It’s one of two locations in Maryland.

Students could earn their high school diploma, take community college courses and gain work experience while living on the campus, which included six dormitories and a cafeteria. The program offered daily classes, study time and a biweekly basic living allowance.

The Labor Department also closed its Job Corps Center in Simpsonville, Kentucky, as part of its effort to financially stabilize the national program.

Nationwide, the average cost per enrollee in the program in early 2020 was $34,301, and $57,312 per graduate, according to a department study.

Job Corps administrator John E. Hall said in the December release that the department tried to cut costs but had to temporarily close the two centers to make its budget for the coming year.

The Woodstock Job Corp Center’s campus was once home to Woodstock College, a Jesuit theology school. The school operated in Maryland from 1869 until September 1969, when it moved to New York City.