using budget reconciliation as a loophole for altering large swaths of policyOn Thursday, theyescalated this strategy The confrontation between Swalwell (age 38) and Biden (76) sparked responses from other members of their respective generations: Mayor Pete Buttigieg (37) and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (77) both attempted to chime in.Buttigieg, the youngest person onstage,said "I was really paying no attention until maybe somebody reacted," Goldstone said. "After a few minutes of this labored presentation, Jared Kushner, who is sitting next to me, appeared somewhat agitated by this and said, 'I really have no idea what you're talking about. Could you please focus a bit more and maybe just start again?'" that the question facing candidates should be who is willing to take on Wall Street and fossil fuel companies, not which generation they're a part of. In the midst of it all, New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand tried to steer the conversation back to education policy.