The sanctions were a publicity stunt designed to make people who don’t know any better think that the administration was doing something significant. But the sanctions for people and companies involved in the hacking are ridiculous. The language is so broad that if Russia was to adopt the same language, they could sanction huge numbers of NSA and DoD contractors and gov personnel. Even if you don’t care about this because “F%$k Russia” remember that they (and others) may judge US citizens by these standards.”]
Source: http://malwarejake.blogspot.com/2017/01/russian-election-hacking-sanctions.html