Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is moving to rewrite decades of federal rules, a sweeping deregulation drive that his allies call overdue modernization and safety advocates warn could cut too deep.

According to figures shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner , the Department of Transportation has carried out 157 deregulatory actions, cutting more than 140,000 words from the Federal Register and claiming about $1.3 billion in cost savings. Officials said each change was vetted by the department’s Regulatory Reform Task Force to ensure safety “is never compromised.”

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