Gov. Maura Healey scheduled her annual State of the Commonwealth speech for Jan. 16, her office said Wednesday, putting on the books an event that could offer more insight into the governor’s third-year priorities and fiscal year 2026 budget proposal.

The speech will come after Healey faced multiple crises during her second year in office like the meltdown of Steward Health Care and as Massachusetts is preparing to react to President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Doug Howgate said governors typically use the speech to offer an outline or highlight specific policy proposals in their forthcoming yearly budget.

But Howgate said Healey also has an opportunity next year to offer insight into how she might use new surplus dollars generated by a surtax on incomes over $1 million also known as the “Fair Share Amendment” or “Millionaires Tax.”

“Hopefully, we’ll hear some of the governor’s vision in terms of not just how to use these resources in 2025 and 2026 but kind of how they fit into the long-term plan for our capital needs, other innovative pilots in transportation and education,” Howgate told the Herald.

Healey is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Jan. 16 inside the House Chamber. A livestream will be available on the state’s website.

In her first State of the Commonwealth earlier this year, Healey said she would use her fiscal year 2025 budget to propose a major increase in operations funding at the MBTA and pitch residents on multi-million dollar mental health and education initiatives.

She slammed former Gov. Charlie Baker’s handling of the transit agency as “underfunded, poorly managed, and badly staffed.”

And as she has done in the months since, Healey also used her remarks to push Congress to “fix the border” amid an influx of migrants to Massachusetts that strained local emergency shelters.

The address was followed by a rebuttal from Sen Peter Durant, a Spencer Republican who painted a bleak picture of a state spending billions on shelters, tax revenues in decline, and residents fleeing for other states that were more affordable.

A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Republican Party said the party is planning a similar event for next year but had not yet decided who would offer the rebuttal.