The Chesapeake Bay Program is set to get an extra $2.5 million next year, despite a request by President Donald Trump that its current $85 million budget be slashed to $7.3 million. The bump in funding comes as the programâs six states â Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Delaware â and Washington, D.C. enter the final stretch of a decade-long push initiated under President Barack Obamaâs administration to clean up the nationâs largest estuary. The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint signed by the six states and the District of Columbia sets a 2025 deadline for each to meet major targets in reducing sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus that flow from agricultural fields, city streets and sewage treatment plants into the bay. Bay Program funds go toward a range of efforts to achieve those goals, including conservation programs administered by Virginia agencies, tree-planting efforts in urban areas and projects to reduce polluted runoff.