President Donald Trump’s surprise directive to the Commerce Department to back off an earlier decision and help Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp. ZTCOY, -3.89% was the opposite of what two of his cabinet secretaries urged in 2016 when they were members of Congress, Bloomberg reports.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who represented districts in Kansas and Montana, respectively, had asked senior Obama administration officials in a 2016 letter to reconsider their decision at the time to relieve ZTE of sanctions for selling technological goods to Iran, Bloomberg says. On Sunday, Trump said in a tweet he was working with Chinese President Xi Jinping to keep ZTE in business. The Commerce Department, Trump said, has been instructed to “get it done.” Bloomberg said spokesmen for Zinke and Pompeo didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside normal business hours.

Also read:Trump extends lifeline to sanctioned Chinese tech company ZTE.

ZTE employees in China, meanwhile, are cheering Trump’s tweet, Reuters writes. “Wow! Breaking good news!” a ZTE manager wrote on her WeChat account.

Trump ‘heartless,’ Sanders says: President Trump and his administration are “heartless” toward immigrants, Sen. Bernie Sanders said over the weekend. The Vermont independent, appearing on CNN, spoke after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told NPR that “the laws are the laws” and that separating families who cross the border illegally is a policy that “no one hopes will be used extensively for very long.” Politico says Sanders cited polling showing nearly 80% of Americans believe the 1.8 million people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be provided legal status.

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Trump, Hannity talk — often: President Trump and Fox host Sean Hannity talk most weeknights after Hannity’s show ends, New York Magazine reports. Hannity “fills the political void” left by Steve Bannon, one source told the magazine, referring to Trump’s former chief strategist. The piece says White House staff are aware that the calls happen, thanks to Trump entering a room and announcing, “I just hung up with Hannity...,” or referring to what Hannity said during their conversations.

Nuclear moves: The New York Times reports that as the U.S. exits the Iran deal and presses Kim Jong Un to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons, there has been a series of little-noticed announcements to spend billions of dollars building factories needed to rejuvenate and expand America’s nuclear capacity.

For example, the Times says, hours after Trump announced his meeting with Kim would take place on June 12 in Singapore, the Pentagon and the Energy Department announced plans to begin building critical components for next-generation nuclear weapons at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.