PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - If Congress doesn’t reach a solution soon regarding the government shutdown, the nutrition program for women, infants, and kids, commonly known as WIC, could run out of money within a week or two, according to the National WIC Association.

The WIC program is still providing support to about 5,000 people in Pitt County during the government shutdown. However, the fight in Congress is something the Pitt County WIC department, as well as mothers, are keeping an eye on.

Heather Whitehurst remembers struggling financially when she was pregnant with her son.

“I had to get food from my parents and his parents,” Whitehurst said. “They went to food drives and stuff for us.”

She soon got on WIC, a special supplemental nutrition program that provides free healthy foods,

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