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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Tax Day Meltdown, Mom-Shaming Clapback And DC’s Messiest Week Yet

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

It’s Tax Day and the mood is already off. Meghan McCain and Miranda Wilkins are back and immediately diving into everything from outrageous government spending to the internet trying to mom-shame them for having jobs. Yes, that happened. This episode tackles the backlash head-on, breaking down the weird expectations around working moms and why the criticism is missing the point entirely. Then things get messy. DC is spiraling, Eric Swalwell fallout continues, and behind-the-scenes chaos is starting to surface in a big way. Add in media drama, political egos, and some truly bizarre behavior, and it’s one of those weeks. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik joins to talk about her new book “Poisoned Ivies,” what’s really happening on college campuses, and why more parents are rethinking where their kids go to school. Plus Yemisi Egbewole drops in with perspective on politics, young voters, and what’s actually happening on the ground. And yes, there’s still time for Quince shopping, reality TV chaos, and the kind of unfiltered conversation that makes this show what it is. A little chaotic. A little funny. Very real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat. The Hello, welcome to Citizen McCain.

0:33.4

It is Wednesday, April 15th, Tax Day.

0:36.3

Tax Day, Miranda, worst day ever.

0:39.4

One of my favorite.

0:40.7

How many phone calls did we have yesterday about me crying me about?

0:45.5

I hate tax day.

0:47.5

Taxation is theft, as we say in Republican land.

0:51.4

There's some quote that it's like, my favorite Ronald Reagan quote is

0:55.2

for Republicans every day is the Fourth of July and for Democrats every day is tax day. It's

1:00.5

April 15th. So, you know, there's no problem that can't be solved without writing a check.

1:06.8

But for real, I hate tax day, taxation and stuff. We should get rid of it. Don't more taxes. That's the most libertarian thing about me. It's so annoying. But I pay them. I'm not like people who are just, yes, I'm paying them. I'm paying them. Obviously, don't come for us. We're paying them. We want our police and our firefighters to get their, and our teachers and everybody

1:27.9

who get their money. I don't mind, obviously, I want teachers and firefighters and first responders

1:33.1

and all those kind of people to get paid. My problem is when I see that Kristy Noem spent

1:36.5

$200 million of my tax dollars on vanity videos and to have a plane with a bed in the back so she

1:43.0

could have an affair with Corey Lewandowski. That's my problem is one of my tax money. Okay. How about this? I don't like my tax dollars going to dirty like dark. They call it like dark money. Like I don't want that. I would like I would like personally allocate where my tax dollars go. Military great. If I could. Fireman great. Teachers great. I want my particular tax dollars to go to the

2:03.8

Palisades Fire Relief Fund. Like, send my money there. Rebuild Spencer Crosse House so he can just

2:09.4

shut up already. Like, just do that. Like, that's what I would like. Give him. I would like to

2:14.9

send him my money. Also, we want to address something really quick.

2:19.4

First, we have an amazing guest.

2:20.8

We have Congresswoman Elise DeFonik coming on in a minute.

2:24.4

And before we do that, we actually want to address something that you guys have been writing in our comments.

2:29.9

We do the show twice a week.

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