President Joe Biden talks to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (second from left), during a tour of the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Arizona, March 20, 2024. | Illustration by Jade Cuevas/POLITICO (source image via AP) A backroom Washington deal brokered two years ago is undercutting a key part of President Joe Biden’s policy to grow the national high-tech manufacturing base — pushing more than $3 billion into a secretive national-security project promoted by chipmaker Intel. In recent weeks, Biden...