Preserving and improving the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay isn’t a partisan issue. After all, it’s something we all value, regardless of our political affiliation.

For the second year in a row, funds to protect and preserve the Chesapeake Bay face being cut by 90 percent (from $73 million to $7.3 million) under the president’s FY 2019 budget, which was released early last week.

A similar attempt was made last year, but Congress fought back to keep the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay program running. Once again, we need legislators on both sides of the aisle to step up and show that a healthy bay is something that is in everyone’s best interest.

The money isn’t that much, considering the massive size of the federal budget and when you look at the cost of something like building a wall along the southern border of the U.S., which is projected to be as much as $70 billion. That’s Billion with a B.

But that relatively small allocation of federal dol...