Emily Scott is a Jobs student in Los Angeles and is also the caretaker of her disabled mother. She is four months away from the task force that hires authorized nurses to plan to work.

Andrea Watts of Las Vegas was homeless and then found a way out to the Jobs Center in Los Angeles, having the opportunity to earn her high school diploma and eventually become a pharmacy technician.

Both are students trained in the Working Corps, but their careers are in a difficult position as the centers suddenly closed last week.

On May 29, the Ministry of Labor announced a "phased pause" in operations 99 Contractor Operation Job Group Center National.

These are federally funded centers that provide vocational training, housing and career assistance to more than 25,000 young people aged 16 to 24. The Labor Department planned to be funded by Congress in 1964 and is usually bipartisanly supported.

However, Labor Minister Lori Chavez-Deremer said in a press release that the program “no longer achieves the expected results students deserve” and “a large number of serious incident reports and our in-depth financial analysis” proved this.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate the job search corps as the case progresses.

The temporary restraining order was filed after the Working Corps contractor sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, ruling that the Labor Department had violated federal law by closing the Corps Center, deeming the White House not authorized to demolish plans formulated and funded by Congress.

A hearing will be held on June 17. CBSNews has contacted the Department of Labor and the Job Search Corps to comment on the ruling.

Jobs officials told CBS News that it had stopped its ability to conduct background checks even before the Labor Department ceased operations last week, effectively freezing the enrollment process. They said that although initially communicated in the form of a suspension, the last date of the staff was given to the date.

Prior to Carter's ruling, the cessation of operations of all contractor-run vocational club centers will occur before June 30.

A transparency report released by the Department of Labor in April found that the program's average graduation rate was less than 40%. The average annual fee per student is $80,000, with more than 14,000 serious incident violations including inappropriate sexual behavior, sexual assault and reported drug use.

The agency announced the suspension last week that the suspension of operations was consistent with President Trump's 2026 budget proposal, with the government's commitment to "ensure federal workforce investment delivers meaningful results for both students and taxpayers."

According to Michelle Matthews, who helped lead the Los Angeles Career Corps Center, the Department of Labor’s findings are “unbelievable” because students are subject to strict regulations and are tested for medication in order to qualify.

"All the numbers raised were exaggerated, the lies were clear and the intentions were obvious," Matthews said, adding that last Friday the news of the center's closure was communicated to students.

"That's a day I'll never forget," Matthews told CBS News crying. “Look at what they are going through and know that the impact will be devastating.”

Students were asked to give up their dormitories, but more than 50 students in the Center for Los Angeles had nowhere to go. Matthews said she is part of the staff who is still working around the clock.

It is not clear whether Wednesday's ruling will be reopened to students immediately.

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have condemned the Trump administration's move to suspend job search corps, which they say is illegal.

“We funded the program in fiscal year 2025, and they’re cutting those slot machines and shutting down what Congress has already funded,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat of California, said in a phone interview with CBS News. “The money is already there, so they should use it to help these kids finish their degrees and certificates, and then we can debate the future of the career team.”

Gomez added that he witnessed the success of the program firsthand because his two siblings were Jobs graduates.

"The kids are in the pipeline, don't take this from them because they don't have many opportunities," Gomez said.

In May, Sen. Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, sent a letter to Chavez-Deremer asking for information on the work group contract, background check processing and assessment plans.

"I strongly oppose the Department of Labor's instructions to suspend operations in Maine and across the country," Collins said in a statement. "Serving nearly 500 students in Maine, the Loring Studio Center and the Penobscot Job Corps Center have become important support for some of our most vulnerable young people."

Scott, who has autism, was forced to drop out of school at the age of 19 to take care of her disabled mother.

"I watched my whole life stop and our situation never improved," Scott said.

The nursing student said she would not be able to pay for the training herself if the task force was effectively closed.

"My future, I can't see it, I can't see anything different from the way I started," Scott said.

For Watt, leaving the task force means returning to Las Vegas where she has no home – without realizing the initial hope of becoming a pharmacy technician.

“I wanted to set an example for my future self, and I recruited the job hunting corps and thought I would be working on a career with my high school diploma,” Watts said. “But it was just taken away from me in a very short time.”