After years of blasting deficits, Portman says GOP plan is different

Sen. Rob Portman insisted Thursday that there's nothing inconsistent about slamming Obama-era deficits in the depths of recession and then, in an economy near full employment, voting for a Republican tax bill that nonpartisan scorekeepers say will add at least another $1 trillion to the deficit. Portman, an Ohio Republican, was in Columbus to tour Wolf Metals, a steel-fabricating firm whose owner said the Republican tax bill signed last month by Presi