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No one knows much about how Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy plan to accomplish that task, only that they and the president they will serve want big reforms not beholden to precedent.

Leaving the agreement would mean the US is no longer beholden to meeting set carbon emissions reductions.

His previous one, Mike Pence, was beholden enough to the Constitution—and reality—to certify the results of the 2020 election.

Hochman has scoffed at suggestions that he would be beholden to his police backers, often repeating a canned line that “nobody hates a bad cop more than a good cop.”

“He is beholden to police unions,” Gascón said.