Congressman Stephen Lynch warned about the consequences to science, research and federal services as thousands of job cuts from the Trump administration continue to pile up.

“I don’t think they wanted to stop cancer research. I don’t think they wanted to stop Alzheimer’s research, I don’t think they wanted to lay off — you know — hundreds of FBI agents that are working on major cases that affect their safety. I don’t think they signed up for that,” Lynch said said during an interview with WCVB that aired Sunday.

Lynch warned that there was a good chance irreplaceable employees slashed from federal jobs won’t be interested in coming back if the government needs them.

“If I was a federal employee — you know, these people are highly valued, they can go to work anywhere, and all of the sudden the government comes in and fires them all. I’m not sure I would want to go back, especially working for crazy people like these,” he said.

Lynch said Republicans, who control both the House and Senate, are the ones who have to drive any congressional response.

“They control the House, they control the Senate. We can’t even get a bill to the floor without the permission of the Speaker of the House. They do drive the process,” he told WCVB.

A new wave of millions of government employees came under scrutiny this weekend as orders went out for workers to respond by Monday to a demand from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to describe how they spent their time at work during the previous week.

“Consistent with President [Trump]’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk wrote social media.

The message that followed instructed the three million people working for the federal government to “please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager,” and gave a deadline of Monday at 11:59 p.m.

The message caused confusion throughout government and some agencies soon told employees that they did not have to comply.

“The State Department will respond on behalf of the Department. No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their Department chain of command,” according to an email from Tibor Nagy, acting undersecretary for management.

The Pentagon and Department of Justice also  told workers to pause on replying to the Trump administration’s email, citing potential legal pitfalls and agency autonomy.