Every time I try to clone a private repository from my github onto vscode, it does

remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/username/project.git/' not found

I made the repo public and I could clone it. But then when I made it private again, I could no longer pull or push.

I am logged into my account. The git URL works. When I did git remote -v it gave me the correct URL. I am all out of options and I spent a couple hours working this out. Does anyone have any ideas on what the issue could be and how I can fix it?