Congress has to be on board with F-16 sale, State Department says 

The US State Department supports the sale of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, but Congress has to also be on board since it is not solely up to the department to decide on the issue, spokesperson Ned Price told a briefing Thursday.

"In our government, these are decisions that are not only within - that are not only left to the executive branch. These are the types of decisions that our legislative colleagues, our colleagues in Congress, also have a say over," Price said. 

"We've made clear to Congress our support for the F-16s. Congress has made its position clear, or I should say individual senators - or groups of senators, in some cases - have made their positions clear," he said.

Earlier on Thursday, a bipartisan group of senators urged President Joe Biden to delay selling the F-16s to Turkey until President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stops blocking...