During the first year of his second presidency, President Donald Trump dispatched a chainsaw-wielding billionaire to loudly eliminate more than 300,000 federal jobs in an unsparing attempt to shrink the government.  Now, the Trump administration is quietly hiring again. Job announcements posted to the federal government’s main hiring portal were up 23% in March from the previous month. The government has launched new recruiting drives targeted at tech staffers, attorneys and project managers.  And the budget proposal that Trump submitted to Congress this month would authorize a small increase in total full-time equivalent employment in 2027. Though those numbers aren’t directly comparable to actual employment, they would give the government headroom to grow the workforce. “I’m trying to be louder on hiring,” Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, said in an interview.…