After unexpectedly being cut off from student loan data by the Department of Education last week, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray is seeking to mend the fence, arguing that the two departments would work better together.

Cordray, a holdover from the Obama administration, wrote Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday asking for a “constructive conversation” on sharing student loan data, adding that “there is plenty of work for each of us to do, but I believe we can generally do it better working together.”