The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was blindsided by the Trump Education Department’s decision to cut off its access to student loan data, a spokesman for the agency said Tuesday.

Education officials notified the bureau on Friday that they were canceling an Obama-era deal to share data on federal student loans, accusing it of being “overreaching and unaccountable.”

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