(CNN)House Democrats scrapped a vote late Wednesday to reauthorize national security surveillance authorities expired since March, after Republicans revolted from the measure in a stark reversal following tweets from President Donald Trump urging them to oppose it.

       House members were informed a little after 9:30 p.m. ET that the scheduled vote to renew three authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act would not occur Wednesday. The decision to punt on the vote came a little over 24 hours after Trump threw his weight into the House's FISA debate by calling on Republicans to oppose the bill. Soon thereafter, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy asked Democratic leaders to pull the bill from the floor, and House GOP leaders urged their members to vote against the measure.

       The swift move in opposition to the FISA renewal was all the more remarkable because the bill the House was voting on Wednesday was largely the same measure that passed 278-136 in March, with 126 Republicans voting in favor. Those voting yes included McCarthy and some of Trump's closest House allies, Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Devin Nunes of California, who had negotiated a bipartisan deal on reauthorizing the FISA provisions with Attorney General William Barr and Democratic leaders.

       The only change made to the bill was the addition of a Senate bipartisan amendment from GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy of Vermont, which added additional legal protections and review to the FISA court process.

       Democrats didn't have enough votes in their caucus to make up the loss of Republican support, as 75 Democrats opposed the bill in March primarily over concerns about civil liberties protections.

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       Trump has railed on FISA for months as a result of the Russia probe and the misconduct surrounding warrants obtained on a former campaign adviser, though the expired authorities are unrelated to the FISA court itself. But the Justice Department backed Trump up on Wednesday, threatening to recommend a veto over the amendment from Lee and Leahy as well as a House amendment that Democratic leaders pulled in order to try to muscle the bill through the House.

       Trump himself made a veto threat over Twitter just hours before the vote was scheduled to occur.

       "If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it," Trump wrote. "Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political crime in its history. The massive abuse of FISA was a big part of it!"

       Trump also called House Minority Whip Steve Scalise Wednesday morning and asked the Louisiana Republican to whip against the bill, according to a source familiar with the call. GOP leaders and the whip team then mounted an aggressive effort to prevent Republicans from defecting, as Democrats were hoping some GOP members would vote for the measure.

       Scalise was among the Republicans who had voted for the similar version of the bill in March.

       Wednesday's aborted vote was the latest hurdle for legislation renewing authorities from the 2001 Patriot Act. The measure has been squeezed both by FISA opponents who have pushed for more civil liberties protections and by the President and his allies furious over the role of the FISA court in the Russia investigation and the misconduct with warrants obtained on former Trump adviser Carter Page.

       Now the expired FISA surveillance powers for federal law enforcement are at risk of remaining lapsed indefinitely. The three authorities -- a "business records" provision allowing the collection of tangible things in national security investigations, a roving wiretaps provision and a lone wolf provision -- have been expired since March 15.

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       Republican leaders said more is now needed to be done to address the problems with the FISA warrant process, and the problems with the warrants obtained on Page. The House's agreement in March included new rules surrounding FISA warrants in an attempt to address the concerns Trump and his allies raised, but Republicans say those are no longer sufficient.

       "In moving forward today, it won't be signed into law. The President has questions, the attorney general has questions," McCarthy said. "Since the time we had passed the bill in the House, there has been more information coming forward with the FISA court being used in processes it shouldn't have been."

       House Democratic leadership initially pushed forward with the vote on FISA Wednesday despite the Republican opposition that emerged. One day earlier, the legislation had appeared to be on a glidepath to House passage on Tuesday, with House Democratic leaders agreeing to an amendment from Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California and GOP Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio that would have limited the collection of internet search history on US citizens and permanent residents.

       After the opposition sprang up from Trump, congressional Republicans and the Justice Department, Democrats dropped their plans to vote on the amendment, instead putting forward the version of the bill that had passed the Senate 80-16, in an attempt to carve a path to pass the measure.

       The twists and turns of the legislation -- and the lengthy expiration of the national security authorities -- is a sign of the concerns within both parties over law enforcement surveillance. It's an issue that's long cut across party lines, combining conservative civil libertarians with liberal Democrats who have pushed back on FISA surveillance powers. Trump's railing on FISA over the Page surveillance warrants has only fueled the opposition and difficulty in renewing the authorities.

       Pelosi suggested at a press conference Wednesday that the House might vote again on an identical version of the legislation the House passed in March.

       In March, 126 Republicans voted for the FISA legislation, following the deal that Trump's allies and Barr cut with Democrats in a rare showing of bipartisanship.

       After an objection from FISA opponents in the Senate to quickly pass the House's bill in March, the Senate approved a renewal of the FISA authorities this month, adding the amendment from Lee and Leahy, which required another vote in the House.

       The Justice Department opposed the amendment the Senate added to the legislation, saying it "would unacceptably degrade our ability to conduct surveillance of terrorists, spies and other national security threats." But DOJ had not threatened a veto of the Senate bill until Wednesday.

       At a Rules Committee meeting Wednesday, Jordan expressed his general support for the legislation, but he also said he understood the President's position.

       "He is frustrated by this process," Jordan said. Asked if Trump would veto the bill, Jordan said: "We've got to know if this is going to pass the House of Representatives today."

       Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, the top Republican on the Rules Committee, said he was still waiting to hear more from the President. "Without presidential support," Cole said, "this is very unlikely to pass."

       This story has been updated with additional developments Wednesday.

       CNN's Ted Barrett and Haley Byrd contributed to this report.

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